David Beedle is a writer living in Canada. No, wait—that’s Curt Henderson from American Graffiti. Let’s start again. David Beedle is a writer living in Pennsylvania. His writing career began in third grade, as a journalist for his one-page newspaper “The Club,” which touted the important happenings of his world: wiffle-ball results, the building of homemade boats out of scrap wood, and exposés regarding hanging out at Herman’s Creek. Hailed by his father and a selected-few cousins, “The Club” was distributed via mimeograph copy to relatives across the country courtesy of the United States Postal Service and a five cent stamp.
Closer to the actual, current world, Beedle’s writing is influenced by a mix of storytellers and artists: The homespun humor of Jean Shepherd and Garrison Keillor, the fiction-born-from-journalism of Cameron Crowe and Tom Wolfe, the gripping prose of Donna Tartt and Shirley Jackson, the unimaginable worlds made real by Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury, and the unforgettable characters that inhabit the vast landscapes created by Larry McMurtry and Stephen King.
“Punk Party and Other Accounts of Mischief” is Beedle’s first published book. He is also the author of a science-fiction novel, “Bottleneck," and is the keeper of the blog, “Find Five Seconds,” at davidbeedle.com. Beedle leads a second life as a video editor, animator, and motion graphics artist. He is one of five siblings, lives in Whitehall, Pennsylvania, and is lucky enough to have an incredible son, Maximilian, and wife, Laura, without whom he is a much, much lesser man.