Copyright Robert Goddard. All rights reserved.

My writing desk, which as you can see, is neat and orderly.

     I was active in college theater and had the following roles:

     Ernest in Impromptu, by  Tad Mosel

     Bottom in Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare

     Juan in Yerma, by Garcia Lorca

     Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road, by Erskine Caldwell

     The lead role in The Dictionary, by Dalton Eddleman

           (Can't find information on the play and don't remember the             character's name.)    

 In 1991, I was the principal founder of The Black Rose Theatre Company, an award winning community theatre still in operation.  I believe that in the first year, I attended every rehearsal and every performance of every play, and of course every cast party. 

Aside from writing, my principal activities are pocket billiards, reading history books and novels, watching the History Channel, the National Geographic Channel, the Science Channel, college football, and watching buskers and street performers on YouTube.

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What I'm reading now:

I'm working on the following list of the top 50 novels of all time. I've read the ones in green and have read the ones in red twice.

1.   In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)

2.   Ulysses (James Joyce)

3.   Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)

4.   One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

5.   The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

6.   Moby Dick (Herman Melville)

7.   War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)

8.   Hamlet (William Shakespeare)

9.   The Odyssey (Homer)

10.  Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)

11.  The Devine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)

12.  Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)

13.  The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostovesky)

14.  Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostovesky)

15.  Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronti)

16.  The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)

17.  Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

18.  The Adventures of Hukelberry Finn (Mark Twain)

19.  Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

20.  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)

21.  The Iliad (Homer) 

22.  To the LIghthouse (Virginia Woolf)

23.  Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)

24.  The Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)

25.  The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)

26.  Nineteen Eighty Four (George Orwell)

27.  Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)

28.  One Thousand and One Nights (?)

29.  The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)

30.  Absalom, Absalom (William Faulkner)

31.  Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)

32.  To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

33.  The Trial (Franz Kafka)

34. The Red and the Black (Stendhal)

35.  Middlemarch (George Eliot)

36.  Guliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)

37.  Beloved (Toni Morrison)

38.  Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)

39.  The Stories of Anton Chekhov (Anton Chekhov)

40.  The Stranger (Albert Camus)

41.  Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

42.  The Aeneid (Virgil)

43.  Collected Fiction (Jorge Luis Borges)

44.  The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)

45.  David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)

46.  Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)

47.  Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)

48.  The Magic Fountain (Thomas Mann)

49.  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)

50.  Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)

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