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Howard F. Mosher
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Howard F. Mosher

Howard F. Mosher Biography

Howard Frank Mosher was the author of eleven novels and two memoirs. He was honored with the New England Independent Booksellers Association's President's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts and was the recipient of the Literature Award bestowed by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His novel A Stranger in the Kingdom won the New England Book Award for fiction and was later made into a movie, as were his novels Disappearances and Where the Rivers Flow North.

He died aged 74 in January 2017.

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In a video interview between filmmaker Jay Craven and Howard Frank Mosher, the two men talk about their projects together and the process to turning a novel into a movie.

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