About the Author
Background
D. E. Munson is the author of In Search of Space and Thyme and By the Time I Got There, the first two books of The Chronicles of Space & Thyme, a series of novels detailing the antics of divinity dropout Space Larrabee in his quest for meaning in life.
“People often ask me if my fiction is biographical,” says the author. “To that I say that life is a fiction, a story we’re each busy writing every day. I strive to create fiction of self-discovery through my characters so we can maybe understand ourselves better. An epic task. Lifetimes in the making.”
Writing Roots
Born and raised in upstate New York, he spent his early years with every intention of becoming a clergyman.
After graduating high school, he headed down south to Lycoming College in PA as a pre-ministerial student. Then the sixties hit, and the world would never be the same.
He became the seeker. Donovan, Dylan, the Beatles, Henry David Thoreau, Maharishi, Ram Dass, Yogananda, William Irwin Thompson, Harold Klemp, a host of spiritual masters, and the girl of his dreams gave him direction on a journey that forms the basis for his writing.
Style
His genre is magic realism, but he lives in Minnesota. Munson’s novels detail the antics of divinity dropout Space Larrabee on his quest for life’s meaning.
His major literary influences have been Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Salman Rushdie, Paul Auster, Neil Gaiman, J.R.R. Tolkien, Herman Hesse, Ursula K. LeGuinn, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and, more recently, Garrison Keillor, David Mitchell, Gabriel Marquez Garcia, and Ben Okri.