Devlin, Richard

Richard Devlin is a writer and artist who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has had fifteen solo exhibitions of his paintings in California and Pennsylvania, where for many years he was chair of the Art Department at Carlow University. A published art critic, he has been a lover of medieval art and architecture since boyhood, making secular pilgrimages over the years to Romanesque and Gothic churches and monasteries in France, England, Italy, Spain, and Germany. But it was a journey to Sicily and his discovery of its rich and varied past that inspired The Cult, the first novel of The Abr...