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Lives west of Sebastopol."},{"label":"Longitude","value":"-122.827727827577"},{"label":"Author Last Name","value":"Fels"},{"label":"Author Name","value":["Michael David Fels"]},{"label":"Author First Name, MI","value":"Michael David"},{"label":"Search Author in WorldCat","value":"Search for Michael David Fels's author profile in <a href=\"https://worldcat.org/identities/find?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:identity&rft.namelast=Fels&rft.namefirst=Michael+David\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WorldCat Identities</a>"},{"label":"Author Genre(s)","value":["Autobiography"]},{"label":"Author Profile","value":"At Venice High School in Los Angeles I'd written short essays and poems. At UC Berkeley, where I'd studied Anthropology, I'd written term papers and essay exams. At Sonoma State University, I wrote the thesis for my MA in Humanistic Psychology and more poems. When we lived and worked in Chinle on the Navajo Nation, where I first wrote stories, I set up a desk in our bedroom closet, our small house filled as it was with our five children, Luisa and me. At The University of Texas, Austin, I wrote my Ph.D. dissertation.  What stands out about my determination to write on that afternoon in the Hill Country is that until that day, I'd written in fits and starts. Years could go by between projects. But that afternoon, something opened in me, and once I started to write the story that eventually became \"Real Scouts,\" published in the collection, Fetching Molly, I never stopped again.  It helped that by 1987 my children were in their late teens or early 20's. and it was more realistic to take time to write. I was lucky to have a career as a university administrator. It was fulfilling and mostly enjoyable. I traveled extensively in the US and abroad in conjunction with my work in international education exchange. My stockpile of material for stories kept growing.  In 2002, some of my short stories were accepted by the New Short Fiction Series in Los Angeles. This readers' theatre selected a few authors each year and, with professional actors performed short stories before live audiences. For the first time, I heard my stories read by people who breathed life into them. I was hooked by the process and the result: I decided to learn to write plays. To do that, I enrolled in UCLA's playwriting program and studied for two years with Simon Levy of Hollywood's Fountain Theatre. By the end of 2005, when I left my university position, I was on a writing roll. Luisa and I returned to the small farm that we own jointly with my brother Peter and his wife Sieglinde in the coastal hills of Sonoma County."},{"label":"Search SCL Digital Archives for this Author","value":["Fels, Michael David"]},{"label":"Search Author or Book in Library Catalog","value":"Search for works by Michael David Fels in the <a href=\"https://find.sonomalibrary.org/client/en_US/default/search/results?qu=%22Fels%2C+Michael+David%22&te=&rt=false%7C%7C%7CAuthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">library catalog</a>"},{"label":"Author Website","value":"View <a href=\"http://www.michaeldavidfels.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">personal or professional website</a> for Michael David Fels"},{"label":"Search Author in Open Library","value":"Search for works by Michael David Fels in <a href=\"https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Fels+Michael+David\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Library</a>"},{"label":"Author's Place(s) of Residence","value":["Sebastopol"]},{"label":"Sort Title","value":"Michael David Fels"},{"label":"Significant Title","value":"Sometimes I See You : A Memoir"},{"label":"Digital Archives Identifier","value":"michael_david_fels"},{"label":"Digital Archives Collection Name(s)","value":["Sonoma County Local Authors"]},{"label":"Date Added","value":"2015/04/30"},{"label":"Filename","value":"michael_david_fels.jpg"},{"label":"Title","value":"Michael David Fels"},{"label":"Item Type","value":["Text"]},{"label":"Item Format or Genre","value":["Biography files","Bibliographies","Portraits","Photographs"]},{"label":"Search SC Local Arts for this Author or Artist","value":"<a href=\"https://digital.sonomalibrary.org/documents?filter_363=michael_david_fels&applyState=true\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael David Fels</a>"},{"label":"Collection(s)","value":["Sonoma County Local Authors"]},{"label":"Author Name (Controlled)","value":["Michael David Fels"]}],"description":"Michael David Fels","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/8b8bf03f-3d52-40af-aeb6-5bba991d9b39/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"Michael David Fels","height":450,"width":450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/8b8bf03f-3d52-40af-aeb6-5bba991d9b39/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/8b8bf03f-3d52-40af-aeb6-5bba991d9b39","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1]}]},"height":450,"width":450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/8b8bf03f-3d52-40af-aeb6-5bba991d9b39/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/8b8bf03f-3d52-40af-aeb6-5bba991d9b39/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/8b8bf03f-3d52-40af-aeb6-5bba991d9b39/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/logo"}