Ernest Hebert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American writer
Date of Birth: 04-May-1941
Place of Birth: Keene, New Hampshire, United States
Profession: novelist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Ernest Hebert
- Ernest Hebert (born May 4, 1941) is an American author.
- He is best known for the Darby Chronicles Series, which is a series of seven novels written between 1979 and 2014 about modern life in a fictional New Hampshire town as it transitions from relative rural poverty to being more upscale, almost suburban.
- He has also written several stand-alone novels, including Mad Boys, The Old American, and The Contrarian Voice: And Other Poems.Hebert was born in Keene, New Hampshire, and was named after his mother's eldest brother, Reverend Joseph Ernest Vaccarest.
- Ernest attended public school and graduated from Keene High School in 1959.
- He applied to Keene State College upon graduation, but was initially denied admission based on his ACT scores.
- As a result, he served in the army reserves for six months before beginning work at the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company as a central office equipment installer.
- After the assassination of President John F.
- Kennedy in 1963, he decided to quit his job and reapply to Keene State College.
- Upon admission to college, Hebert hired a retired Keene school teacher to tutor him in English studies.
- The reading assignment she chose for him was The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.
- by William Makepeace Thackeray, which he intensely disliked.
- He began his college career in the fall of 1964 and initially majored in History.
- After several semesters, however, he realized that he much preferred writing to history.
- In his junior year, Hebert read the poem Preludes by T.S.
- Eliot which entirely transformed his outlook on life.
- He then gave up writing prose to focus entirely on writing poetry and changed his major from History to English.Hebert met his future wife, Medora Lavoie, at Keene State College.
- They married in early 1969, the same year that Ernest graduated from Keene State.
- Upon graduation, Hebert and his wife moved to California so that Hebert could attend Stanford University in pursuit of a master's degree.
- While attending Stanford, Hebert studied creative writing with a concentration in poetry.
- After several semesters, however, Hebert concluded that he had learned everything he could from his professors and that graduate school was not for him.
- He and his wife then returned to New Hampshire so that Medora could finish her bachelor's degree at Keene State College.
- Hebert then began working as a journalist for several newspaper during this time period, including The Keene Sentinel Newspaper, Business NH Magazine, The New Hampshire Times, and The Boston Globe.
- In 1972, he won two Journalism Excellence Awards from United Press International.
- One of the awards was for an article he wrote about a moose that had wandered into the city of Keene one day.
- During this time period, Hebert wrote The Dogs of March, which was published by Viking Press in 1979.
- This novel was the first book in his Darby Chronicles Series of novels, which centers around the fictional town of Darby, New Hampshire.
- Over the last several decades, Hebert has continued to write this series, which includes: A Little More Than Kin, Whisper My Name, The Passion of Estelle Jordan, Live Free or Die, Spoonwood, and Howard Elman's Farewell.
- He has also written several stand-alone works, the most recent of which was a collection of poetry titled The Contrarian Voice: And Other Poems. In addition to his writing, Hebert worked as a professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College for more than 25 years before retiring.
- Over the course of his career as a professor, he taught several notable people, including David Benioff.
- Hebert is the first member of faculty at Dartmouth College to be tenured as a fiction writer.
- Because of the prolific nature of his writing career, much of Hebert's work has been donated to university archives in New Hampshire.
- Dartmouth College houses his earlier work relating primarily to his Darby Series of novels.
- Keene State College, his alma mater, additionally has a collection which includes Hebert's digital artwork, original galleys of his novels, and early drafts of his books.
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