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Clyde James Aragon (artist's conception)
BIOGRAPHY
of Clyde James Aragon
Born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he is the author of the humor books Tales of Delight and Shame, The PC Affair, and Abandon All Hope! - cheerful humor for impossible days. His prose humor has appeared in national magazines and many southwestern newspapers and magazines. He has also produced greeting card material and composed crossword puzzles including a bilingual one for Hispanic Magazine which ran for seven years His radio plays have been produced by Albuquerque Radio Theater, a part of KUNM-FM radio.
Partial List of Publications (prose humor):
Omni; Writer s Digest; Gray's Sporting Journal; Chile Pepper Magazine; Santa Fean Magazine; Americas Magazine; Santa Fe Literary Review; Stitches - The Journal of Medical Humour (Canada); ComputorEdge; Business Journal of Central New York; La Prensa San Diego; Horizon Air; The Good Life Magazine; La Oferta Review; Air Destinations; Albuquerque Journal; the Mesa Review; Psychology Today
Published Books:
Abandon All Hope! - cheerful humor for impossible days; (Cliff Zone Books; ISBN: 0-9648641-2-6;
LCCN: 00-092523)
Tales of Delight and Shame: (Cliff Zone Books; ISBN: 0-9648641-0-X; LCCN: 95-92560)
The PC Affair: (Cliff Zone Books; ISBN: 0-9648641-1-8; LCCN: 96-092977)
The Comic Southwest (humorous story collection)
The Southwest In Puzzles (puzzle booklet)
The Ultimate Bilingual Crossword Puzzle (puzzle booklet)
Rhymes of an Urban Laureate/ A City Dweller's Answer to Cowboy Poetry (poetry booklet)
In the fall of 1979 did In The Dark, a comic strip for The Daily Lobo (University of New Mexico)
Wrote the play Macbeth, P.I. detective to the Middle Ages
In late 1979 won a Spanish short story contest given by Northeastern Illinois University - La Entrada - which is the basis for the play The Translated Works of Stephen Watts Kearny and His Army of the West which was first performed July 20, 2002 at the Fourth Annual Hispanic Playwrights Festival hosted by Fort Worth Theatre in Texas. His radio play, Blackbeard’s Tuna, was recorded in November 2005; his one-act play, Shakespeare’s Wife, was performed in Colorado in August, 2006 at the Boulder Acting Group's play festival; his ten-minute play Pirate Bitches of the Caribbean was chosen for the Paw Paw (Michigan) Village Players’ Short Play Contest in February 2007; and his ten-minute play The Coroner was performed November 7, 2008 in Hot Springs, Arkansas for the Southwest Theatre and Film Association’s SWTFA Shorts competition
write: Clyde James Aragon
2200 Marie Place NW
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104
And, first of all, if you're a spammer, e-mail him at bem@spam.com
and for the rest of us, he can be e-mailed at: the letters 'czb'; the symbol for 'at'; the word 'cliffzonebooks'. the symbol for 'dot'; and, finally, the word 'com'
A note, Clyde James Aragon is now listed on the Author/Book Club Connection, a website which links authors with book clubs in Albuquerque and New Mexico. He is in the Authors: Albuquerque and New Mexico section which has loads of writers and their bios and books. Their website is: http://authorbookclub.tripod.com/index.html
And if you would be interested in his theatrical plays, click on the word "Stage Plays" on the menu to your right.
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