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About the author
I was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1949; when I was three we moved to Houma, Louisiana, a city located in Terrebonne Parish. I attended parochial school for twelve years under the tutelage of the Carmelite nuns and Brothers of the Sacred Heart; strict discipline and high academic standards ensured that I would receive a good education. I attended college at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute in Ruston, Louisiana, for two years; I made it through my freshman year okay, but lack of discipline caused me to flounder during my sophomore year. My GPA dropped significantly; that marked the end of my college career. After college, much like Forest Gump says, “I’ve worn lots of shoes.” My wife Patricia and I reside in a house not far from my mother’s ancestral home, on the lower end of Bayou Du Large. My mother was a descendant of the founder of the village of Theriot (my community) Michel Eloi Theriot; he established a settlement here in the mid-1800s. My wife’s mother was a descendant of those who originally settled Deer Island around this same time period; many of their family members are buried in the cemetery there. I found the roots to these two beginnings very fascinating, so I decided to write “Deer Island in Autumn,” which has elements of both.
