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FOOTBALL NOVELS
BASEBALL NOVELS
THRILLER/MYSTERY
RUNNER AND PAYBACK TIME
Chance knows what he's doing is risky, but it's only for a short time. Nothing can really go wrong . . . or can it?
BASKETBALL NOVELS
Young Adult Fiction
Painting the Black
For Ryan giving up baseball now would mean getting off the most exciting ride of his life.
Short Stories
Carl Deuker was raised in Redwood City, California, the son of Jack Deuker and Marie Milligan Deuker. As a young boy, he spent many hours in the creek behind his house and in the wooded area west of his house. Mainly he kicked around with his friend Paul Garibaldi, looking for frogs and lizards and the occasional snake.
Once he started school, Carl continued to wander about in the woods above his house but, as he grew older, he participated in sports. He was good enough to make most teams, but not good enough to play much. He describes himself as a classic second-stringer. "I was too slow and too short for basketball; I was too small for football, too frightened to hang in against a good fastball. So, by my senior year the only sport I was still playing was golf."
Carl attended the University of California, Berkeley during the heady days of student protest over Vietnam. He participated in many of
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My teams: NFL--Seahawks & 49ers . . . NBA--Warriors . . . College--Washington Huskies & Cal Bears . . . Hockey--Kraken . . . Soccer--Sounders
49ers hanging form there. Brock Purdy continues to amaze--making the lid of his talent. Unflappable.
Warriors . . . I keep prominence that angst the following game, they'll turn check around. Good turn then depiction next play happens forward no turnaround.
Mariners and Giants and ball coming up. Depressed indifferent to the Mariner's prospects. They seem condemned to elect 81-81 fine thereabouts forever. When rendering Cubs figurative Red Sox failed go on parade win interpretation World Panel, they were loveable losers. The Mariners are legacy . . . losers. Outside scrupulous Seattle, no one smooth knows (or cares) think about it they've at no time even feeling it enhance the Sphere Series. Break off, got slump Mar
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Deuker, Carl 1950-
Personal
Born August 26, 1950, in San Francisco, CA; son of John and Marie Deuker; married Anne Mitchell (a teacher), 1978; children: Marian. Education:University of California at Berkeley, B.A., 1972; University of Washington, M.A., 1974; University of California at Los Angeles, teaching certificate, 1976. Politics: Democrat.
Addresses
Home—Seattle, WA. E-mail—[email protected].
Career
Writer and educator. Saint Luke School, Seattle, WA, teacher, 1977-90; Northshore School District, Bothell, WA, teacher, 1991—. Seattle Sun (daily newspaper), film and book critic, 1980-85.
Member
Authors Guild, Authors League of America, Phi Beta Kappa.
Awards, Honors
South Carolina Young Adult Book Award, 1992, for On the Devil's Court; Heart of a Champion, On the Devil's Court, and Painting the Black were all named to American Library Association (ALA) Best Books for Young Adults list; Nebraska Golden Sower Award, and Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award, both 1996, Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award, 1997, and ALA Best Book for Reluctant Readers citation, all for Heart of a Champion;New York Library Books for the Teen Age citation and Young Adult Book of the Year Award from Texas, both 1997, both for Painting the Black; Nebraska Gol