Herron, Colm

Colm Herron's first writing career began at the age of seven when he sold his vampire stories to classmates. Two years later he was telling cliffhangers to the wasters in the local gambling hall. Colm's abiding memory is that these guys seemed to enjoy this weekly break from misspending their lives. When he was fifteen he had a play on BBC and later brought his short stories to Brian Friel, an emerging playwright. Friel said "Great. This stuff's better than what I wrote at your age." But Colm was unimpressed and thought "Friel's going nowhere. I don't know why I came to him at all." So Colm ga...