King Biscuit - Gray, Michael Loyd
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In King Biscuit, Michael Loyd Gray returns once again to the fictional small town of Argus, Illinois, (the setting of his novels Well Deserved and The Last Stop), to tell a coming-of-age story set in 1966. With the Vietnam War hovering in the background. Seventeen-year-old Billy Ray Fleener, frustrated by the narrow confines of Argus, seeks adventure and a look at the wider world in a novel that puts him on a collision course with the famous as well as infamous.

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In King Biscuit, Michael Loyd Gray returns once again to the fictional small town of Argus, Illinois, (the setting of his novels Well Deserved and The Last Stop), to tell a coming-of-age story set in 1966. With the Vietnam War hovering in the background. Seventeen-year-old Billy Ray Fleener, frustrated by the narrow confines of Argus, seeks adventure and a look at the wider world in a novel that puts him on a collision course with the famous as well as infamous.
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Michael Loyd Gray's stories have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Alligator Juniper, The Fiction Week Literary Review, Bone Parade, I-70 Review, Westchester Review, and Literary Heist. He is also the author of six novels. Well Deserved won the Sol Books Prose Series Prize (2008) and King Biscuit, his first YA novel, was released in 2012. Both are set in Gray's fictional small town of Argus, Illinois, which is also the setting for The Last Stop. His novel The Armageddon Two-Step (2019), won a Book Excellence Award.Gray earned a MFA in English from Western Michigan University, where he was a Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society scholar and a fiction editor for Third Coast. He served as a staff writer for newspapers in Arizona and Illinois, and currently lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he collects electric guitars (up to a dozen now) and listens intently to blues and vintage rock. Gray teaches creative writing and literature for several colleges when not grappling with a new guitar lick. He has two lazy cats, Suzie Lucifer and Yoda Lucifer.