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James P. Higgins has been a writer since he was 11 years old, growing up in Stonington, a town of 6,000 on the Atlantic coast where Rhode Island meets Connecticut. His first published work, “Reflections In the Garment District,” appeared in 1968 in “Frontiers”, the litmag at the time of Fairfield University. In 1970, Fairfield granted him a BA in English Literature.


		James P. Higgins
	This writer is a member of the Alameda Writers Group	BIO James P. Higgins has been a writer since he was 11 years old, growing up in Stonington, a town of 6,000 on the Atlantic coast where Rhode Island meets Connecticut. His first published work, “Reflections In the Garment District,” appeared in 1968 in “Frontiers”, the litmag at the time of Fairfield University. In 1970, Fairfield granted him a BA in English Literature. Post-college, while a roadie nights and weekends for recording rock band “Repairs,” his day job was writer/editor for Prentice Hall’s newsletter division, the “Bureau Of Business Practice,” where he produced two nationally distributed monthlies. In 1974 he quit Prentice Hall to move to Los Angeles with Repairs. When the band broke up a few months later, Higgins freelanced for a while as a copywriter of brochure doggerel for veteran location-finder, John Harkrider, then in 1976 settled into being a technical writer for a short list of Los Angeles banking corporations. In 1979, he was head-hunted away to become an account executive at a private financial management firm in Beverly Hills. Through 1981, he wrote feature articles for “Premiere Magazine” including Incorporating The Individual and Premiere’s Guide To Independent Film Financing. In 1981 he started his own Business Management firm in Burbank, and headed it successfully for over fifteen years. During that time he served on a variety of Boards, including public companies, private companies, charitable organizations, and government Commissions. He began writing full-time in 1996. His archived material include numerous short stories, songs and poems, a comedic novel about the origins of World War I, a book-length poem, and a novel about a modern Pequot teenager coming of age through the Connecticut tribe’s swift ascendancy (1975-1990) from pig farmers to billionaires. Since February 2006, he’s been researching and writing a serious biography of Isabelle Palms Buckley (1900-1986), founder, in 1933, of The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks. The book will be published in 2008 in conjunction with the school’s 75th anniversary. Higgins writes in and around a happy noisy house on Toluca Lake where he lives with his wife and the three youngest of his eight children. CONTACT THE WRITER Email James P. Higgins READ THE WORK A sample of his light verse: Ogden Nash made his cash with words, space, and time, Terse and pithy, agile with the meter, wit and rhyme. It’s like he guys like me write to wannabe.