Max Yoho is a lifelong Kansan. Born in 1934, he spent his barefoot summers in Colony, explored the banks of the Missouri River at Atchison, and cruised the streets of Topeka in his 1933 Auburn sedan. Max was soon a father and working full-time as a machinist. He was
always a reader and interested in writing, but it was 1958 before
he found time to enroll in an evening Freshman Comp class at Washburn
University. His Comp teacher recognized his Max got serious about writing after he became a widower in the late 1980s. He honed his writing skills by writing poetry, essays, memoirs and short stories at "A Table for Eight," a Topeka area writers' group. When singing or speaking in public, Max found an appreciative audience any time he quoted his own writing. After retiring in 1992, Max developed what had started as a short story into his first novel, The Revival. This humorous work was published in 2001 and won the 2002 J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award of the Kansas Authors Club. Word spread quickly among readers that this coming of age story of eleven-year-old Edwin J. Stamford was sidesplitting fun. Max's second novel, Tales from Comanche County, was developed from characters Max concocted for a millennium celebration article he'd written for the Topeka Capital-Journal. Here Max serves up a feast of poems, essays and short stories in Felicia, These Fish Are Delicious. Some work is funny—some starkly serious. Readers should tuck in their napkins, grab their forks, and sink their teeth into these bits of wit and wisdom. But…watch out for bones! — read an interview with Max Yoho
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