A Prayer Book for the Damned

About the Author David J. Keffer was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He pursued a technical education earning a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. After a year as a post-doctoral scholar at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., he began his career as an engineering professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he remains today. He has published about 100 technical papers in archival journals. In addition to various numerical methods courses, he also created and taught a course on non-idiomatic improvisational music. Outside of engineering, David Keffer studied world literature and creative writing. He has published analytical articles on the works of Primo Levi and Kobo Abé. He created various reading aids to several classical Chinese novels. Over the past two decades, he has been active writing novels, poetry and stories. Various novels and illustrated stories are available from the Poison Pie Publishing House at http://www.poisonpie.com. Relevant to this collection of prayers, David Keffer was raised in the parochial school of St. Catherine of Siena parish in Kansas City. He received additional education from the Jesuits at Rockhurst High School in Kansas City. He is a member of Immaculate Conception, a parish administered by the Paulist fathers, in Knoxville, Tennessee. David Keffer lives in Knoxville with his wife, Lynn, and two children. As a family, they enjoy hiking through the local mountains and are always on the look-out for poison pie and other ambivalent mushrooms that dot the landscape.

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