A Poetry of Birds

Dan Liberthson, novelist and poet, has published The Golden Spider, a young-adult fantasy novel, and five collections of poetry on topics including his family history, animals and birds, and baseball. The Bluejay Contrivance, his latest novel, is a historically based espionage intrigue that unfolds from 1935 to 1975; is set in Nazi Germany, Latin America, Laos, Israel, and the US; and brings into play the CIA, Mossad, and Latin American security services. Born in Rochester, NY, he attended Northwestern and SUNY at Buffalo (PhD, English), is retired from a career as a consulting medical writer, and lives in San Francisco, CA and Cottage Grove, OR.