Goulden, Gordon

After enjoying modest success with his first novel, Gordon Goulden turned his fiction-bent attention to the subject of his livelihood: education. Drawing on the experiences of a teacher, and his long-nurtured lust for mystic observations, he wrote From the Painted Stick. A full-time teacher now again, Goulden spends his days within the framework of high school society with young people who surpass his expectations and encourage him to keep telling stories.