Edward J. Renehan Jr. - writer, musician, etc.
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51 years old
Southern Coast, Rhode Island
United States
Last Login:
7/6/2008
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Edward J. Renehan Jr. - writer, musician, etc.'s Interests
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| General | Family, friends, writing, reading, hiking, music (listening and making, especially guitar music). | | Heroes | Numerous, including Thoreau, Lao Tzu, and Gary Davis. |
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Edward J. Renehan Jr. - writer, musician, etc.'s Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking | | Orientation: | Straight | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Leo | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | College graduate |
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Edward J. Renehan Jr. - writer, musician, etc.'s Schools
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Suny College At New Paltz
New Paltz,NY
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Political Science
Minor: English
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1977 to 1980 |
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About me:
The facts, just the facts:
My friends know me as Ed, not Edward, even though the latter decorates the covers of my books.
I've got a rather eclectic resume. So, bear with me.
My home page is here.
I'm the author of books that include Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Basic Books/Perseus, November 2007), Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons (Basic Books/Perseus, 2005), The Kennedys at War (Doubleday, 2002), The Secret Six (Crown, 1995) and John Burroughs: An American Naturalist (Black Dome Press, 1992). I am currently at work on a memoir.
I've as well been quite active in other realms including green-politics, music, and the business end of book publishing.
From 1980 through 1994 I worked as a professional at various New York publishing houses. Most notably, during the late 1980s and early 1990s, I was Director of Computer Publishing Programs for Newbridge Book Clubs, at that time a firm owned by the start-up K-III, now PriMedia. There I had a special interest in digital publishing and trade books related to the use of personal computers. I subsequently authored several of the first major book/CD combos introducing users to the resources of the Internet and World Wide Web. I still sometimes consult on editorial development, digital publication and digital direct marketing. My clients have included Haights Cross Communications and the publications division of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
My prose has appeared in numerous national publications.
Terrain: I live with my family in southern coastal Rhode Island.
Music: During my dissident youth I recorded with Pete Seeger for Moe Asch's Folkways Records, now Smithsonian Folkways, and also with Don McLean and others. I was literally a kid when I studied guitar with the great Gary Davis. (If you want my opinion, Jorma Kaukonen reigns as the best contemporary interpreter of Gary's tunes.) Way back in 1980, I edited The Clearwater Songbook, with an introduction by Seeger, which G. Schirmer published as a fundraiser for the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. (A previous effort had been Don McLean's Songs & Sketches of the First Clearwater Crew published by North River Press in 1970.) March of 2008 saw me playing my first public gig in a very long time, performing with Happy and Artie Traum in Albany, New York. (Photos in my pics section.) I had fun.
I was diagnosed as bipolar (aka, manic depressive) in 2007.
This is a progressive biochemical disorder from which I've evidently
suffered for a very long time, perhaps even since adolescence, and
which had reached a grave critical mass in recent years. I am currently
under treatment, on meds that my doctor and I are fine-tuning, and I am
slowly learning how to cope more efficiently and constructively than I
have in the past. (In the meantime, I continue to pick up the shattered
pieces from one of my last great, extended manias.) I only mention
the bipolar issue because I approve of the movement of sufferers who
are "outing" themselves, discussing the disorder, and thus working to
remove the stigma that surrounds it.
I am a member of PEN American Center.
A number of my books are available in audio editions from Recorded Books.
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Who I'd like to meet:
St. Francis, St. Jude, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Johnson, and W.H. Auden - to name just a few.
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