CHAPMAN
THE MAN BEHIND THESE
GREAT BOOKS
DANIEL CHAPMAN
Having retired from a thirty-year career educating and serving at risk youth, Chapman began a new hobby and focus on traveling and writing. His travels have taken him on creative writing assignments throughout Mexico, Central America, Great Britain, and throughout Europe and the Middle East. His Previous books and poetry reflect many of those journeys. During an eight-year hiatus from teaching, however, our author did take a new, blue-collar profession becoming a Journeyman Field-Construction Bollermaker Mechanic; Rigger, Fitter, and Welder. He too struggled while attempting to duplicate what his parents had experienced in their youth as he searched boomtowns throughout America seeking work as a field-construction "boomer" welder. Presently, he lives in Suisun City, CA with his wife, Angelina. his pet Chihuahua, "Mona," and his ever-loving, faithful, obedient, loyal, and workaholic computer.
Daniel T. Chapman’s writing interests began during his teaching career.
He used his own personal poetry during various taught subjects to better illustrate, examine, beautify, and emphasize studies, concepts and topics with his students. Interjecting personal verse became a popular theme, and his works became popular even among his peers. Eventually, those efforts encouraged and promoted Chapman’s first volume of published poetry, Be Not Forgot’.
Upon retirement, Dan began traveling, living away in temporary, distant locations and focusing on his newly developing writing career. Along the way came his first novel, Messages from Vallarta, a collection of compositions, essays, prose, and poetry about living in Puerto Vallarta, MX. Then came a second volume of poetry, Poetic Justice, about sights, people and life in PV. Next came this biographic novel about his mother’s young life during the Great Depression and WWII years, War Torn. His latest novel, There and Then: A Summer to Remember, is his youthful, coming-of-age story about living off his wits while hitching around Europe for a summer right after high school graduation.
Writing, therefore, has become a comfortable and pleasing source of self-expression for Chapman to continue educating and sharing with his readers. He especially enjoys paraphrasing an old time, hit TV series starring Richard Boone, with his own updated version: “Have Laptop, Will Travel.” If it’s about traveling, Chapman is happy to write and share about it.