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THE BOOKS OF JONATHAN MAY
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Jonathan May at retirement party for Sawyerville postmaster Louvinia Dedrick, 2013.

Raised in Sawyerville, Alabama, JONATHAN MAY attended school in nearby Greensboro, then Birmingham-Southern College where he majored in English literature. After his moving to New York and while working at a clerical job in the Journalism Library at Columbia University, he attended the School of Library Service there part time and earned a Masters in library science. He worked in the Serials and Documents Acquisisions Division for several years before becoming government documents librarian in 1976 in the newly established separate documents library. He retired early from librarianship to return to his family home after the death of his parents, accompanied on that adventure by Tom Miller, his companion of some 22 years. Learning that both Jonathan and Tom were writing, local friends began to refer to their home as "the Sawyerville Fiction Factory." They lived and worked together there until Tom's death in December, 2007. Over the years they shared the Sawyerville property with four goats (Clover, Buttercup, Daisy, and Ageratum), two dogs (Huckleberry and Roscoe), and three cats (Catalina, Sibling, and Kitty Witty), now all gone.  In addition to writing, Jonathan's interests include films, reading, trying to keep the grass cut, and dodging tornadoes in the springtime and hurricanes in the summer and fall.


Foolishly, he thought that his name was distinctive enough that a pseudonym was unnecessary. He totally forgot all those constructions such as "Jonathan may go to town or he may not." Oh well, done is done.


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