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.
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.