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Davis Bunn Revealed
About Davis Bunn
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What is your birthdate?:8/29
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Previous occupations:Manager for Africa and the Middle East, Swiss pharmaceutical company
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Favorite job:other than writing, sailing instructor on the NC coast
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High school and/or college:undergrad in North Carolina, graduate school in London
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Name of your favorite composer or music artist?:Hundreds in competition for the top slot.
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Favorite movie:Matrix
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Favorite television show:Chuck
Revealing Questions
- Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
- A. An abundance of challenges.
- Q. What is your motto or maxim?
- A. Esse quam vedere: To be, rather than to seem.
- Q. How would you describe perfect happiness?
- A. Riding a clear blue pipe in the tropical sun.
- Q. What’s your greatest fear?
- A. Deep water - deep shades below me.
- Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be?
- A. right here, right now
- Q. With whom in history do you most identify?
- A. Carl Jung
- Q. Which living person do you most admire?
- A. David Lynch
- Q. What are your most overused words or phrases?
- A. Let's get to it.
- Q. What do you regret most?
- A. Never having travelled Southeast Asia with my wife
- Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?
- A. Playing fusion jazz guitar, aka Jesse Cook
- Q. What is your greatest achievement?
- A. Remaining a believer, at least through this morning
- Q. What’s your greatest flaw?
- A. Immediate action. I make decisions quickly.
- Q. What’s your best quality?
- A. The same.
- Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be?
- A. A perfect twenty-foot peak headed straight for Pipeline
- Q. What trait is most noticeable about you?
- A. Intensity in silence
- Q. Who is your favorite fictional hero?
- A. Paris from the Iliad
- Q. Who is your favorite fictional villain?
- A. Mephistopheles
- Q. If you could meet any historical character, who would it be and what would you say to him or her?
- A. George Freeth. Does he regret introducing surfing to southern California.
- Q. What is your biggest pet peeve?
- A. Hotel beds. I prefer sleeping on the floor.
- Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing?
- A. Teaching new writers.
- Q. What’s your fantasy profession?
- A. Lead guitarist in a hot band.
- Q. What 3 personal qualities are most important to you?
- A. Charity, constancy, valor.
- Q. If you could eat only one thing for the rest of your days, what would it be?
- A. CHOCOLATE.
- Q. What are your 5 favorite songs?
- A. Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Sheherazade', the rest change with the tides.
On Books and Writing
- Q. Who are your favorite authors?
- A. Too many to count, much less name.
- Q. What are your 5 favorite books of all time?
- A. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
The Chinese Bandit, Stephen Becker
Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis - Q. Is there a book you love to reread?
- A. Dozens of them. More.
- Q. Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?
- A. You must master the rules before changing them.
- Q. What comment do you hear most often from your readers?
- A. Do another one like the last one!
- Q. How did you come to write Gold of Kings?
- A. A lifetime's passuib for adventure, combined with a three-generational heritage in antiques and treasures.
