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Author: Wayne F Burke
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9789363542716
Publisher: Cyberwit.net
Pub. Date: 2025
Price: $17

Herman Theodore Dreiser’s father, John Paul Dreiser, born in Mayen, Germany, along the Moselle River, come to America in 1844 to avoid military conscription; he 23-years old. Theodore Dreiser’s mother, Sarah Dreiser nee Schanab, born in 1833, and grown in Ohio, USA—born in Dayton (pg. 20, Lingeman, Richard, THEODORE DREISER, At the Gate of the City, vol. 1). Daughter of Mennonites (Dunkards). She and John Paul met in Fort Wayne, Indiana (pg. 20, Lingemen, vol. 1) where the Schanab’s had relocated, from Ohio. The couple married against the wishes of Sarah’s father. She, 16-years old, and he, John Paul, twenty-seven.

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Wayne F. Burke

Wayne F. Burke was born in 1954 to Claire Burke nee Kelly and Edward W. Burke. He was raised in the home of his paternal grandparents, as were his three siblings. His grandfather owned and operated BURKE'S INN, a generational business begun previous to the First World War. He attended public schools and after graduating High School, four institutions of higher learning before graduating from Goddard College in 1979 (RUP). After traveling and working a wide variety of jobs he settled himself in the central Vermont area, USA, and has remained since. His first full-length poetry collection was published when he was fifty-eight years old. Six more publications have followed, with an eighth book, BLACK SUMMER, New & Selected Poems, soon to follow.