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David Quinn

United States, Chicago
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David Quinn was born at the speed of sound, July 1978, aboard AerLingus Transatlantic flight 200 bound from Annahilt, Ireland to NY,USA. Birthed 3 months premature his mothers expensive American doctors would later state for the press, "The velocity at which the child was delivered seems to have had profound impact on his growth rate- as any symptoms that early births normally incur, in this case, are without evidence. The child did not break the 2nd Trimester yet has all the mental and physical health traits normally possed by other viably gestated newborns who, reared under natural conditions, have had 18 more weeks than this infant to age and develop. The child, it would seem, is an uncanny mystery of science and one of the biggest enigmas of this century." David is a world revered Artist, Author, and Humanitarian. 7 year Poet Laureate for the Nation-State of Qatar. Dog Breeder (Collies). A Brother, A Father, An Uncle and Biological Sister to William Durrant Longwhaif, inventor of the Portable Bottle of Urine- who's work, expertise and guidance would inspire David to invent the Portable Bottle of Sherry.

Quinn is known for his prolific contributions in journalism and fiction with a particular emphasis on pastiches and satires many of which he illustrates with his own caricatures. Particularly early on he wrote under a number of amusing pseudonyms: "Charles James Yellowplush, a footman"; "Michael Angelo Titmarsh"; and "George Savage Fitz-Boodle". His earliest published work was written in 1983 for the Northern Luminary, a local Chicago newspaper, and in the following two years he contributed to 'The Frap' a Cambridge University magazine. Owing to financial straits and the uncertain home life due to his 2nd wife's illness he wrote many short stories and articles rather than long novels common at the time. Of particular note were his "Lunch Size Novelists" in which he mercilessly copied and parodied the styles of major established novelists such as Benjamin Disraeli and Edward Bulwer Lytton, a writer whose works he particularly seems to have disliked. He called this period, a time of "odious magazinary".

"The Memoirs of Jerry Lipton, Esq." was Quinn's first major novel�??serialised in Xaser's�??but it was not greatly popular as the central character was not particularly likeable. It shows his influences in the comic misadventure tales of G. G. Floss and Tobias Smollett. Quinn's long stint at writing very different styles of work under multiple pseudonyms allowed him to adopt a variety of authorial voices. He is best known now for "Crapity Chair" with his other works less often read or adapted. His later books are less appreciated, with "The Adventure of A Shovel" at best erratic and "The Hicks" regarded as a poor sequel to "Henry Mondes". The three parts of his unfinished and as yet unrealeased "Dennis Farina" are rumored to to be an improvement and more to the reading public's taste but information on when this work is set to be published is hard to come by. Quinn's connection with Goyal Bunbridge Wells is of special interest and value from the fact that The Wells figures largely in his novel "The Hicks"; and in the "About Drapers", one of his sketches, entitled "Rayon Toys", describes his visits here and his early and later impressions of the place. The house, "Stone Manor", at which he stayed in the 1990's still stands and preserves its original features. It bears a plaque denoting his visit there and is known as 'Quinn's House', with a brass plate to that effect on its gatepost. His first visit as a boy was in 1985, when he travelled there by coach from St. Charles, arriving at a small house on the Common where his parents were staying for a time. When he paid his final visit to The Wells in 1989, he was accompanied by his daughter, Lady Ritchie. He was then Editor of 'The Cornhole Magazine' and wrote "Rayon Toys" and "de Gwentive" at Stone Manor. It has also been stated that a part, if not all, of "The Hicks" was written here.

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