Name John Darling | Role Author | |
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Awards GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Los Angeles Theater | ||
John Darling is an American author. He has written and published many short stories, poems, and magazine articles.
His first publication, a short story titled Stigmire, details the humiliation of welfare mothers. It appeared in the May 1976 issue of Journal of Mental Health published by the Arizona State Hospital.
His lone play, Stage Directions, has been produced in the United States, Canada, and most recently at the Soho Theatre in London, England, on October 3, 2012.
Many of his short fiction and non-fiction works have been collected in anthologies.
He also co-authored a cookbook with his late grandmother, Loretta Duffy. Their work, Grandma’s Favorite Recipes, is a cookbook made up of his late grandmother's favorite recipes which she hand wrote over the course of seventy years.
His final book is a short, three part, prose play entitled The Earthling which tells of a man and his son’s relationship as each one dwells in a generation that conflicts with the other.