Alan S KesslerIn his writing, Alan S Kessler creates complex, marginalized, and oftenflawed characters in stories exploring the nature of good and evil and thecorrosive effect of racism, abuse, and social injustice. His writing isinfluenced by childhood pain. As h stated in a blurb about his mostpersonal novel, Shadowlands, " I was born in a small town in Ohio. TheMidwest is associated with wholesomeness and family values. I know frompersonal experience this isn't always the case. Those corn fields often hidemore within them than the sound of the wind." The past can cripple, for Mr.Kessler it created a writer, one who has empathy for even his imperfectcharacters who are neither good nor bad but inhabit the gray area in-between. His writing is both dark and hopeful with forgiveness andunderstanding woven into the worlds he creates. No one is judged...Except the truly wicked. Alan S. Kessler believes in social justice andretribution toward those who oppress the powerless and harm the innocent. Read More Read Less