Born: 11/14/1929   Detroit , MI
Died: 07/21/2000
Parents: Norman A. Peters, Eleanor H. Peters
Spouse: Lillian (Lee), an artist and art teacher
Children: Jennifer Leigh Harman, Thomas R., Jr., Sarah Jeanne
Address(es):
Last known address:
The Grosse Pointes , MI

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Into the Emerald City wiith Gangster Sungalsses : Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Essays	Fiction	Adult	Detroit : Xpressway Publishing	1995
	Two Weeks in the Forties : a novel	Fiction , Michigan	Adult	Detroit: Xpressway Publishing	1988
	Third Coast : Contemporary Michigan Fiction - Included in Anthology	Fiction , Michigan	Adult	Detroit : Wayne State University Press	1982
	The Education of Tom Webber : a novel	Fiction	Adult	Hicksville, N.Y. : Exposition Press	1977
	A Van Gogh Portfolio and Other Poems - Booklet	Poetry	Adult	Privately Published	1967
	Other writings: - Published in Detroit Monthly Magazine, Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Bombay Gin, and others	Poetry	Adult

What is the aim or goal of your writing: "To create works of artistic/literary merit from my experiences and convictions which will both entertain and enlighten readers". 2nd ed. says, "Ever since winning the Ewing Award for Creative Writing at Hillsdale College in 1954, I have been steadily and seriously involved in creative writing. Had it not been an economic necessity, I would have never entered business but spent a lifetime creating novels, stories, and poems. The subconscious evolution of a book takes quite a long time for me--but once begun, I am capable of writing fast, fairly polished first drafts. After two self-edits, I consider my work ready for publication. My edior on my first published novel only changed three words in the book, and we quibbled over two of them. Both my first novel and the one I am working on are set in Michigan. The first short story I ever tried to market, 'Fanfare at Twelve' was third selection by Mademoiselle Magazine (they published the other two way back in 1953) while I was still in college. As a creative writer apprentice, I took 16 credit hours of Creative Writing at three schools under three different novelist professors, and they all singled out my work as outstanding and professionally publishable. Even so, it still took me many years to get a novel between hard covers. I did have experiences which were at once heartenting and disheartning, however when the first three major publishers I sent my novel to all wrote back personal, lenghty letters explaining that my book had passed one or two editors and had been recommended for publication only to be declined by the board specializing in sales market potential. I consider my work more literary (than pop market) which makes it all the more difficult to sell to a publisher.

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Name	Date
Opus Magnum Award for Two Weeks in the Forties	1996
Recipient Alumni Achievement Award in Literature, Hillsdale College	1993
Grant from Utica Schools	1989
International Literary Award, MSS, Inc	1985
Grant, Grosse Pointe Foundation	1978
Ewing Award for Creative Writing at Hillsdale College	1954

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