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BIOGRAPHY


John Knoerle began his creative endeavors as a member of the DeLuxe Radio Theatre, an early 70’s comedy troupe in Santa Barbara. He moved to LA and worked as stand up comic, opening for the likes of Jay Leno and Robin Williams at The Improv and The Comedy Store. He went on to write several screenplays, including Quiet Fire, which starred Karen Black and Lawrence Hilton Jacobs. He wrote the stage play The He-Man Woman Hater’s Club, an LA Time’s Critic’s Choice.

John also worked as fiction editor of Mystery magazine in the early ‘80’s and, in 1996-97 as a staff writer for Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion.

John moved to Chicago in 1996 with his wife Judie and began his quest to write the great American novel. “Crystal Meth Cowboys” was published in 2003. His novel “The Violin Player” won the 2003 Mayhaven Publishing Fiction Contest and will be published in 2004. He has completed “Two Jacks”, a crime novel set in Cleveland in 1945,  and is currently at work on the sequel "Walk Back the Cat", set in Berlin in 1946. 

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