Welcome! My name is Daniel McInerny and I am the author of the comic novel, High Concepts: A Hollywood Nightmare, as well as, for children, the humorous Kingdom of Patria series. In my odd hours I am also a playwright and screenwriter.
I hold a PhD in philosophy and taught for many years at various universities in the United States.
Who inspires me in literary matters?
Leaving aside, of course, Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and other classical warhorses…
Evelyn Waugh, P.G. Wodehouse, Jane Austen, Muriel Spark, Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, Tom Stoppard, J.R.R. Tolkien, Graham Greene, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope…
At present I’m working on a novel set within a small deranged society passionate about discussing the meaning of death.
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P.S. This is probably the only photo left in existence in which Picasso and I appear together…
Illustrations at danielmcinerny.com are by Theodore Schluenderfritz.
