LITERATURE + LECTURES

Brazos presents an Author Appearance: John Kerr - A ROSE IN NO MAN'S LAND.

Frank Harrington is an idealistic volunteer in the American Ambulance Field Service, a group of young Americans ferrying wounded soldiers from the front lines of the Western Front to temporary, teeming field hospitals. As Frank gradually comes to grips with the appalling realities of trench warfare and dodges the German shells, he also finds himself falling in love with Kit Stanley. Kit is one of many volunteer English nurses tending to the flood of British soldiers suffering from ghastly wounds and poison gas. But she must also grapple with the burden of her allegiance to Captain Nigel Owen, an infantry commander caught in the thick of the fighting.

By turns gripping and romantic, horrifying and deeply moving, John Kerr's powerful novel paints a vivid picture of life just behind the front lines and of the ordinary, unsung men and women whose sacrifice and heroism helped save the lives of thousands of soldiers.

John Kerr grew up in Houston, Texas and graduated from Stanford University with a degree in History before earning his law degree from the University of Texas Law School. After working in private practice as a securities lawyer for a number of years, his business career developed to include corporate management, investment banking, and venture capital entrepreneurship in biotechnology. His passion for investing (primarily in biotechnology) continues, though it is now matched by his passion for writing fiction, resulting in the publication of two (soon to be three) novels, strongly influenced by his life-long study of European and American history.

Kerr resides in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife, two dogs, and pesky African Gray Parrot.