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Contact:
timsheard@optonline.net
718 940 4797
917 428 1352 (cell)
415 Argyle Road, #6K
Brooklyn, NY, 11218
timsheard@optonline.net
718 940 4797
917 428 1352 (cell)
415 Argyle Road, #6K
Brooklyn, NY, 11218
Biography
Veteran critical care nurse and epidemiologist, Timothy Sheard has drawn
on his 36 years of hospital experience to publish over 100 articles, short
stories, plays and books. His crime novels - THIS WON'T HURT A BIT,
SOME CUTS NEVER HEAL, and A RACE AGAINST DEATH - feature
Lenny Moss, hospital custodian and union shop steward, and a cast of
engaging, lovable and contradictory co-workers.
Lenny is inspired by the real life exploits of an 1199 shop steward. (see
Meet The Real Lenny Moss.). His friends are likewise inspired by the
many hospital workers Sheard has known over the years. He brings a
multi-cultural group to life with conviction, humanity and passion, never
idealizing or stereotyping them.
The crime novels have been favorably reviewed in the New York Times,
Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and several union newsletters. (See
reviews).
Sheard is also the co-author of a moving memoir of a burn victim, Delbert
McCoy. THE FIRE IN MY SOUL offers a powerful portrait of a man
condemned by fate to a terrible suffering, and who is saved by the love
and hard work of his family and friends. Sheard was Mr. McCoy's nurse in
1970. Thirty years later he worked with McCoy to write his life's story. The
book includes harrowing scenes from the fire and the hospitalizations,
along with endearing stories from McCoy's childhood - growing up in
Detroit with the new Motown acts, going to the grandparents' farm in
summer to work hard, encountering the riots, and much more.
Not just an author, Sheard is an activist who has advocated for social
causes his entire life. He is an active member of the National Writers
Union, helping organize panels and discussions that address important
social questions, such as the grossly unequal power relationship between
publishers and writers, the rise of Internet giants like Google, who are
exploiting writers’ works without compensating them; the widespread
abuse rising out of the war in Iraq/Afghanistan and the war on terror in the
US, and the continuing inequalities resulting form institutional racism.
A member of the Working Class Studies Association, Sheard has
presented papers on Crime Novels and Proletarian Literature at the W.C.
Studies Conference in 2005, along with Victor Cohen and Jonathan
Senchyne.
Mr. Sheard lives with his lovely first wife, Mary Lonergan, in Brooklyn, New
York. His two fine sons, Matthew and Christopher, live in Brooklyn.
Veteran critical care nurse and epidemiologist, Timothy Sheard has drawn
on his 36 years of hospital experience to publish over 100 articles, short
stories, plays and books. His crime novels - THIS WON'T HURT A BIT,
SOME CUTS NEVER HEAL, and A RACE AGAINST DEATH - feature
Lenny Moss, hospital custodian and union shop steward, and a cast of
engaging, lovable and contradictory co-workers.
Lenny is inspired by the real life exploits of an 1199 shop steward. (see
Meet The Real Lenny Moss.). His friends are likewise inspired by the
many hospital workers Sheard has known over the years. He brings a
multi-cultural group to life with conviction, humanity and passion, never
idealizing or stereotyping them.
The crime novels have been favorably reviewed in the New York Times,
Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and several union newsletters. (See
reviews).
Sheard is also the co-author of a moving memoir of a burn victim, Delbert
McCoy. THE FIRE IN MY SOUL offers a powerful portrait of a man
condemned by fate to a terrible suffering, and who is saved by the love
and hard work of his family and friends. Sheard was Mr. McCoy's nurse in
1970. Thirty years later he worked with McCoy to write his life's story. The
book includes harrowing scenes from the fire and the hospitalizations,
along with endearing stories from McCoy's childhood - growing up in
Detroit with the new Motown acts, going to the grandparents' farm in
summer to work hard, encountering the riots, and much more.
Not just an author, Sheard is an activist who has advocated for social
causes his entire life. He is an active member of the National Writers
Union, helping organize panels and discussions that address important
social questions, such as the grossly unequal power relationship between
publishers and writers, the rise of Internet giants like Google, who are
exploiting writers’ works without compensating them; the widespread
abuse rising out of the war in Iraq/Afghanistan and the war on terror in the
US, and the continuing inequalities resulting form institutional racism.
A member of the Working Class Studies Association, Sheard has
presented papers on Crime Novels and Proletarian Literature at the W.C.
Studies Conference in 2005, along with Victor Cohen and Jonathan
Senchyne.
Mr. Sheard lives with his lovely first wife, Mary Lonergan, in Brooklyn, New
York. His two fine sons, Matthew and Christopher, live in Brooklyn.
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Tim and Mary with Tim's 1969 Avanti
| Photo courtesy of Joseph Milder |