Joe Claussen:  

[Note: In 1983, "Joe Claussen" changed his name back to his birth name "Joseph Hart Williams IV" and dropped the "Joseph" part, which he never liked.] ================= Hart Williams attended Texas Christian University on a National Merit Scholarship. As if to disprove the wisdom of that honor, he dropped out at the end of his junior year -- having realized that his vocation was writing and that colleges actually didn't do very well in teaching that profession. He lived in Hollywood for a decade and a half. In that time, he wrote for newspapers, magazines, film and video. Some of his works are mentioned at least eight times in the Meese Commission Report. He has two paperback novels in and out of print. He has written criticism, essays, short stories, articles, interviews, service pieces and even "girl copy" for men's magazine photo spreads. Now he eschews the killing of trees and sells his non-fiction and fiction Kindle books from his author's page on Am...Expand for more