In a nutshell, John R. Erickson’s May-published “Small Town Author” focuses on writing in and about familiar surroundings. The now 81-year-old Erickson communicates how he left his sheltered roots for university life in the 1960s and decided he wanted to be a writer. But the tumultuous time in American history temporarily shifted his writing focus away from his traditional faith-based upbringing toward edgy “social ferment” pieces he was later embarrassed to read.
In “Small Town Author,” which took him 15 years to complete, Erickson provides insight into that blip in his over eight decades of writing:
