About the Author

Born in Woburn, Massachusetts, David B. Lentz graduated from Bates College and is a member of the 2016 Yale Writers' Conference, the Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Society of America, the Center for Fiction in New York and the Royal Society of Literature in London. Lentz has published seven literary novels: "The Fine Art of Grace", "For the Beauty of the Earth", "AmericA, Inc.", "Bloomsday: The Bostoniad", "Bourbon Street", "The Day Trader" and "The Silver King." "Old Greenwich Odes" are pixelated depictions of quotidian life in a small town in Connecticut on Long Island Sound. In "Sonnets from New England: Love Songs" and "Sonnets on the Common Man: New Hampshire Verse" he innovates with a seven-beat, iambic heptameter and introduces new sonnet sequences. He adapted from his novel, "Bloomsday: The Bostoniad" - written as an American sequel to James Joyce's "Ulysses" - a stage play entitled "Bloomsday: A Tragicomedy" and has also tailored for the stage his novel, "AmericA, Inc." "Novel Criticism" offers an innovative approach in the critique of literary fiction. "Essential Lentz" is a compendium of his collected literary works. He has served Bates College as an Alumnus-in-Admissions, Stamford-Greenwich Literacy Volunteers of America, Healing the Children Northeast (Board), Midnight Run for New York City Homeless, Hurricane Katrina JazzAid: New Orleans (Founder), Hope + Heroes Children's Cancer Foundation, St. Baldrick's Foundation for Children's Cancer Research and as a Volunteer in St. Paul's Chapel at Ground Zero. He resides with his family in Greenwich, CT.