Dixon Long

DIXON LONG moved to the San Francisco Bay area after many years as professor of political science and dean at Case Western Reserve University. Before that, he sailed a small boat with two friends from Yokohama to Barbados, worked and lived for a time in both Tokyo and Paris, and earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University. Dixon has published several novels. Brothers, a family drama that moves among New York, Tokyo, Paris and Provence, was published in 2001. A Very Rich Man, the story of a wealthy...See more

DIXON LONG moved to the San Francisco Bay area after many years as professor of political science and dean at Case Western Reserve University. Before that, he sailed a small boat with two friends from Yokohama to Barbados, worked and lived for a time in both Tokyo and Paris, and earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University. Dixon has published several novels. Brothers, a family drama that moves among New York, Tokyo, Paris and Provence, was published in 2001. A Very Rich Man, the story of a wealthy and dysfunctional Cleveland family, appeared in 2007. An international political thriller, Running Without Lights, came out in 2010. A collection of short stories and a novella set in the south of France, Weekend in the Luberon, appeared in 2012. Love, Maybe in 2013 traces the emotional evolution of a man whose wife has left him for a woman. Sea of Troubles, also in 2013, follows the fortunes of an ambitious young college president who makes every conceivable mistake. Connections, in 2014, brings together the lives and loves of characters from prior novels, as Mead College in Massachusetts is engulfed in the financial upheaval of 2008. A sequel titled All Things Change follows the subsequent career of the major character. Dixon is co-author with Ruthanne Long of Markets of Provence (HarperCollins, 1996, out of print) and Markets of Paris (The Little Bookroom, 2007; 2nd ed. 2012). It is a comprehensive guide to open-air food markets as well as markets for antiques, art, books, bric-a-brac, clothing, crafts, fabrics, prints, and more. He has worked with Marjorie R. Williams on a new version of Markets of Provence, scheduled for publication in May 2016. Covers, summaries and extracts of his work are at dixonlong.com. See less