Dirk Wales

Dirk Wales has had the good fortune to have five of his books publishes: Two books on photography and text and the second on the pair being The Secret Heart of Numbers; a book of short stores called Love Scenes and finally three children's books, A Lucky Dog: Owney, U.S. Rail Mail Mascot (October 2003) and Penny House (October 2005) Twice A Hero (March 2007) Dirk likes to refer to himself as a Lucky Dog...in capital letters because it is also the name of his first children's book, A Lucky Dog....See more

Dirk Wales has had the good fortune to have five of his books publishes: Two books on photography and text and the second on the pair being The Secret Heart of Numbers; a book of short stores called Love Scenes and finally three children's books, A Lucky Dog: Owney, U.S. Rail Mail Mascot (October 2003) and Penny House (October 2005) Twice A Hero (March 2007) Dirk likes to refer to himself as a Lucky Dog...in capital letters because it is also the name of his first children's book, A Lucky Dog. You have to read the book to know how lucky is Owney, the U.S. Rail Mail Mascot. But to understand Dirk's good luck you have to know that after 30 years as a screenwriter, he got his first two children's books published at age 68. He says, like so many writers before him, persistence and hard work bring fruitful results. Proof of his Lucky Dogness. As a writer of books for young people, he is currently working on his next book, Jack London's dog, this book explores the notion of memory and heroism through the meeting of London and the dog who would become Buck in Jack London's Call Of The Wild. These two knew each other for a scan seven months during the Yukon gold rush of 1897, but remained in each other's memory for years. The story dramatizes what happened while they were together and after they parted. In his other life, Mr Wales is a writer and director of film and video having made more than 200 documentary, children's films and educational film/video and won more than 100 film/video Festival Awards in national and international competitions. Mr. Wales grew up in Los Angeles and studied at Stanford University and UCLA. He lives in Chicago and Santa Fe. See less