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 T. William Phillips was born and raised in Texas. He attended high school in Denver, Colorado, and upon graduation, began wandering from one place to the next, living in Bozeman, Montana, Los Angeles, California, and Fort Collins, Colorado. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
"I have wanted to be a writer for as long as I can remember, but it wasn’t until I began my self-education that I realized the kind of writer I wanted to be. Three years ago, I began a rigorous study of classic literature, including Hermann Hesse, Ernest Hemingway, and Jack Kerouac, as well as Dostoevsky, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flaubert, Camus, Steinbeck, Joyce, among many others, not to mention countless poets. I have also studied the philosophers who inspired the themes and topics about which these authors wrote. It was the classic Hessean bildungsroman theme that inspired my coming of age novel, Restless Heart.
Now, at the age of 24, I have written my first of what I hope to be many literary works. After carefully studying the elements that go into the creation of a truly great novel that will stand the test of time to be studied and pondered by countless literary critics and aesthetes, I am hopeful that I have written a novel that consists of those key elements, which make a great literary work."
Samples of my poetry can also be found on my author website.
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MY NEWS:
Publication of first novel in June of 2010, Restless Heart, a literary work of historical fiction set in 1840's America.
See my website for excerpts, current projects, samples of my poetry, events, etc.
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State/Country: Texas
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BOOKS PUBLISHED:
 Restless Heart
Restless Heart is an epic novel, which falls neatly and originally within the characteristics of literary and historical fiction. Set in 1840s America in the midst of great expansion and Manifest Destiny, a young man sets out on a journey of self-discovery, adventure, and love. The story follows recent Oxford University graduate, Konrad Quintero de Leon, upon his return home to New York City and the aristocratic life that awaits him there. Konrad, unready to settle down into that lifestyle, heads off to New Orleans with his childhood friend, the energetic and loveable, Miriam Monroe. From New Orleans, Konrad goes on great adventures across the frontier, but when he falls for Anastasia Carriere, he must choose between love and his restless heart.
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