My Famous Brain

"My brain was famous, but I was not. Not every gifted child invents a
pollutant-free fuel, paints a masterpiece, or finds the cure for
cancer," Jack MacLeod tells us. "Some of us just live out our lives."
Jack died in 1974; now, he's ready to narrate his story from beyond the
grave.

Jack's prodigious memory, which allows him to memorize books, and his
penchant for psychic connections give him unusual insights into the
events of his past life and make him fiercely curious about his current
state of existence. Jack immerses us in interconnected tales of his
childhood participation in a research study on the intellectually
gifted, his dual career as a clinical psychologist and university
professor, his participation in the unmasking of an unscrupulous
colleague, his long-term health issues, his brief but life-changing love
affair with a student, his deep friendship with another man, and his
eventual acceptance and celebration of the circumstances of his fate.
How Jack dies, and how he deals with the murder of someone close to him,
mirrors how he has lived and grown, and marks the significance of
everyone and everything that ultimately brings him to yet another level
of brilliance.

Author: Diane Wald
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 10/05/2021
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.59w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781647422059


Award: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards - Bronze Medal Winner


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Foreword 06/10/2021

About the Author
Wald, Diane: - Diane Wald's novel Gillyflower was published in April 2019 by She Writes Press and won first place in the novella category from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, first place in the novella category from American Book Fest, first place in Fiction: Novella from International Book Awards, and a bronze medal from Readers' Favorite. Since 1966, Diane has published more than 250 poems in literary magazines. She the recipient of a two-year fellowship in poetry from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and has been awarded the Grolier Poetry Prize, The Denny Award, The Open Voice Award, and the Anne Halley Award. She also received a state grant from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts. She has published four chapbooks and won the Green Lake Chapbook Award from Owl Creek Press. An electronic chapbook (Improvisations on Titles of Works by Jean Dubuffet) appears on the Mudlark website. Her four full-length poetry collections are Lucid Suitcase, The Yellow Hotel, Wonderbender, and The Warhol Pillows. My Famous Brain is her second novel with She Writes Press. She lives in Boston, MA.