Plot: The Skeleton of the Story with Tom De Haven

Tom De Haven is the author of 18 books, including the Derby Dugan Trilogy (Funny Papers, Derby Dugan’s Depression Funnies, Dugan Under Ground), the King’s Tramp Trilogy (Walker of Worlds, The End-of-Everything Man, The Last Human), Freaks’ Amour, Jersey Luck, Sunburn Lake and It’s Superman! His most recent works, Richmond Noir (co-edited with Andrew Blossom and Brian Castleberry) and Our Hero were published in 2010. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review and since 1990 has taught in the MFA creative writing program at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a co-founder of the VCU-Cabell First Novelist Award, now in its ninth year, and lectures and writes frequently on American cartoonists and comic strips. Read Tom De Haven's wikipedia page, here!