More Light draws from Jonathan Strong's lifelong interest in opera, as well as childhood summers in northwestern Illinois. While writing fiction, he has also arranged performing editions of several Gilbert and/or Sullivan operas. He has taught for more than forty years, chiefly at Tufts University and the Bread Loaf School of English, and has published a dozen highly praised books. His most recent novels include Drawn from Life (Quale Press), Consolation (Pressed Wafer), and A Circle Around Her (Zoland Books), as well as the forthcoming Hawkweed and Indian Paint-brush. Strong lives in Rockport, Massachusetts, and in summers travels to the farmlands of Vermont and the Midwest.

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