This fan site is dedicated to sharing some of the internet available works of R. F. Laird. We encourage fans to discuss and suggest items for this blog. Who is R. F. Laird? Here's the short version:
R. F. (Robert)
Laird was born in Salem, New Jersey, the son of a World War II fighter pilot
and the grandson of a World War I infantry captain. As a member of the
notorious Baby Boom generation, he came of age during the late 1960s and witnessed
firsthand the radicalization of American college campuses, the explosion of the
drug culture, and the sexual revolution. He was educated at Harvard University and
went on to do graduate work at the Cornell University business school, where he
observed former radicals and hippies rededicating their lives to the pursuit of
material prosperity.
After pursuing
a successful career as a management and communication consultant, Laird took a
sabbatical from the world of business in the late 1980s to complete a work of
satirical fiction he had begun nearly 10 years previously. The Boomer Bible,
A Testament for Our Times, was published in October 1991 by Workman
Publishing of New York and was named by the Wall Street Journal as one
of the 10 most significant books published that year.
Laird has since
published Shuteye Town 1999 and Shuteye Nation, both blistering
multimedia topical satires published at the website Deerhound Diary, The
Indictment, An Obama Diary, Why is there a Boomer Bible, The ABCs
of Shuteye Nation, Writing Down America, The Lounge Conversations,
The Zeezer Bible and The Snowflake Bible, Sighthounds and Other
Strangers, and White Privilege.
Meanwhile, R.
F. Laird continues to work and write from his home in Salem, New Jersey.
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