- Max Yoho
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Max Yoho (born 1934 in Colony, Kansas) began writing humorous books and poetry in 1988 after becoming a widower. Max has written several books including The Revival and Tales from Comanche County.
Biography
Max Yoho was born in Colony, Kansas in 1934. In 1944 Max moved with his family to Atchison, Kansas and in 1949 to Topeka, Kansas. He graduated from Topeka High School in 1953. Following graduation, he enrolled at Washburn University where his writing talents were identified. He wrote for The Review, a student newspaper.
Max worked as a machinist and retired in 1992. He published his first humorous work, The Revival, in 2001 and won the 2002 J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award of the Kansas Authors Club. He is the only Kansas author to have two titles, The Moon Butter Route and The Revival in the Kansas Center for the Book's Favorite Kansas Books list. Other books from this list include Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, Robert Day's The Last Cattle Drive, and L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Max's third novel, The Moon Butter Route, was named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas State Librarian in 2006 and received the 2007 J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award of the Kansas Authors Club.
Max's novel With the Wisdom of Owls was published in Fall, 2010. About a baby with an owl as his godfather, the work is another strong example of this author's delight with the English language. The book is based on the author's credo: "Never let reality limit your life."
Max's newest novel Me and Aunt Izzy : Doing Time at the Jesse James Hideout and Coal Mining Company was published in Fall, 2011. Set in fictitious "Buffalo County," Southeast Kansas, in 1938, this is the delightful story of eleven-year-old Jefferson Davis Johnson, sentenced to a summer of "moral rehabilitation" under the watchful eye of his great aunt, Queen Isabella of Spain Johnson. A relic of the "roaring twenties," this stern matriarch may have her own ideas about what a boy should learn.
Max was awarded one of eleven "ARTY" Awards by ArtsConnect of NE Kansas on May 5, 2011, as "Distinguished Literary Artist."
The Revival and Tales from Comanche County are currently available as unabridged audio books from Books In Motion of Spokane, Washington.
Max lives with his wife Carol at their home in Topeka, Kansas.
Books
- The Revival, 2001, Dancing Goat Press, ISBN 0-9708160-0-6
- Tales From Comanche County, 2002, Dancing Goat Press (this title is no longer in print)
- Felicia, These Fish Are Delicious, 2004, Dancing Goat Press, ISBN 0-9708160-3-0
- The Moon Butter Route, 2006, Dancing Goat Press, ISBN 0-9708160-4-9
- With the Wisdom of Owls, 2010, Dancing Goat Press, ISBN 978-0970816054
- Me and Aunt Izzy, 2011, Dancing Goat Press, ISBN 978-0970816061
External links
Categories:- People from Anderson County, Kansas
- Writers from Kansas
- People from Topeka, Kansas
- American novelists
- Living people
- 1934 births
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