David Horsey is known far and wide for his snappy editorial cartoons, winning two Pulitzer Prizes for his work at the Seattle P-I, Los Angeles Times and Seattle Times. While he has published 11 books of his editorial cartoons, “Beach of Stars,” which was published in December, was his first foray into the world of fiction. And the kudos keep rolling in.
Timothy Egan, ’81, a National Book Award winner and former writer at The Daily, says “Beach of Stars” is “a wonderful novel” and a “masterful bit of storytelling.” UW Professor Emeritus Charles Johnson, also a National Book Award recipient, calls the novel “amazingly good.” It opens with a 21-year-old college student working a summer job in Mexico when his decisions lead him to a life of “impulsive actions, bad things and happy coincidences.”
The new novelist answered a few questions about his work.
Read the full article in the University of Washington Magazine.