Dixon Long

Dixon Long lives in Mill Valley, California. Before moving to the Bay Area in 1990, he was professor of Political Science and dean of Western Reserve College at Case Western Reserve University. His account of building a 42-foot yawl in Japan and sailing across the Indian and South Atlantic oceans with two friends, Westward Home, was published by Carpenter Reserve Printing Company, Cleveland, Ohio in 1979. His first novel, Brothers, was published in 2001 by Creative Arts Book Company, Berkeley. A Very Rich Man, his novel about a wealthy but dysfunctional family, came out in 2009. His short stories have appeared in several small literary magazines. Part of a novella, Weekend in the Luberon, was published in ZYZZYVA 76, Spring 2006. A new novel, Running without Lights, is scheduled to appear in June, 2010. He has co-written two guides to markets in France, Markets of Provence (HarperCollins, 1996) and Markets of Paris (The Little Bookroom, 2007). The former sold more than 50,000 copies before going out of print, and the latter has sold more than 21,000 as of May, 2010.