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For 20 years, he was the writer-in-residence and creative writing professor at Florida’s prestigious Rollins College, until frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) robbed him of his ability to write or speak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book’s subtitle, acknowledging Philip Deaver as a “minor” American writer, is not pejorative. Although he was not a household name, and his list of published works was not long, his written words were invariably of a high standard. And coupled with his outstanding work was the recognition by all who knew him that, as a human being of intelligence, compassion, and wit, there was nothing minor about him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne Dog Barked, The Other Howled\u003c\/em\u003e includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Philip Deaver’s stories were full of blurred time and half-lived dreams. 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