About Allen

Meet the Author

My Story

I grew up in Little Silver, New Jersey, on the northern part of the Jersey Shore. In ninth grade, I went to Lawrenceville School where I became active in the environmental movement. It was February 1970, just before the first Earth Day, and my Algebra I teacher assigned the Time Magazine cover story on environmental concerns, rather than the typical math homework. I decided early on be an environmental attorney. 

After law school, I worked at EPA in Washington D. C. and then as corporate counsel at The Sherwin-Williams Company. It was a rewarding career. While practicing law, I thought about writing a novel. I was influenced by an English elective called The American Hero where we read books like Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. When I retired, I put pen to paper. The Unconventional Guide to Joseph Fine is my debut novel. My goal was to write something engaging and enlightening.

My Story

I grew up in Little Silver, New Jersey, on the northern part of the Jersey Shore. In ninth grade, I went to Lawrenceville School where I became active in the environmental movement. It was February 1970, just before the first Earth Day, and my Algebra I teacher assigned the Time Magazine cover story on environmental concerns, rather than the typical math homework. I decided early on be an environmental attorney. 

After law school, I worked at EPA in Washington D. C. and then as corporate counsel at The Sherwin-Williams Company. It was a rewarding career. While practicing law, I thought about writing a novel. I was influenced by an English elective called The American Hero where we read books like Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. When I retired, I put pen to paper. “The Unconventional Guide to Joseph Fine,” is my debut novel. My goal was to write something engaging and enlightening.

Allen Danzig

Books

Books have the power to transport us to new worlds and different times, but they can also take us back to the important moments in our own lives.

Poems

Poetry is the architecture of dreams and memory, all at once.

Music

Music addresses the emotion of life for which words do not exist.

"When your fingers move and the words flow, it’s a great rush, a creative high.”

Allen Danzig

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Dazzle your Book Clubs and enjoy an evening walking through the writer’s process for developing and publishing the novel The Unconventional Guide to Joseph Fine, and Q&A with Author Allen Danzig. Autographed copies will be available for purchase.

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