Louis Phillips was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on June 15, 1942.He started writing at age 6 on his father's Smith-Corona typewriter and he has been typing. hunting and pecking, scribbling, computer entering, saving, deleting, filling up spiral notebooks, file folders, manuscript boxes, and two large lockers of manuscripts.He has written plays, short-stories, poems, humor pieces, and ransom notes.In addition. he may be one of the world's record holders for collectng rejection slips. His notion is that no matter how terrible he writes, somebody is writing worse and collecting a piles of money for his or her work.The only thing that separates Mr, Phillips from Random House is some $800,000,000. If he had lots of money, writers asking to be pubished would be coming to him . In addition to his writing, Mr. Phillips is also works hard at his photography. He lives in Manhattan where he teaches at the School of Visual Arts. **"If you can imagine the world that might have resulted had Bernard Malamud andFlannery O'Connor collaborated, then you can understand the country that LouisPhillips runs through." Laura Kennelly, reviewing A DREAM OF COUNTRIES WHERE NO ONE DARE LIVEfor Texas Books in Review (l994)Louis Philips has written some 50 books forchildren and adults. Among his publications areA DREAM OF COUNTRIES WHERE NO ONE DARE LIVE (short stories, SMU Press), THE MAN WHO STOLE THE ATLANTIC OCEAN(children's book, Prentice Hall), and THE ENVOI MESSAGES (play, Broadway Publishers). He edited THE RANDOM HOUSE TREASURY OF BEST LOVED POEMS and THE RANDOM HOUSE TREASURY OF LIGHT VERSE). Louis Phillips' most recent books are: THE WOMAN WHO WROTE KING LEAR and other stories (Pleasure Boat Studio), THE KILROY SONATA (a poetic sequence, published by World Audience Publishers), FIREWORKS WITH SOME PARTICULARS (stories, poems, plays, & humor pieces, publishedby Fort Schuyler Press), and MUST I WEEP FOR THE DANCING BEAR (Pleasure Boat Studio). "Phillips is a wonderfully imaginative and originalwriter. I don't know anybody who can handle a variety of voices as an astonishing variety of times and places, with the ease and skill he repeatedlydemonstrates." George Garrett, reviewing A DREAM OF COUNTRIES WHERE NO ONE DARE LIVEfor Texas Books in Review (l994)