Meet the Authors: Richard Cass

Richard Cass grew up in Boston, lived through the bussing years, and graduated from Boston Latin School, the oldest public school in the United States. He’s had the very good fortune to study with such superb writers and teachers as Thomas Williams Jr., Ernest Hebert, and Ursula K. LeGuin, none of whom should be held responsible for how he turned out. Dick is the author of the Elder Darrow Boston jazz mystery series, which he pitched as “an alcoholic walks into a dive bar and decides to buy it.” Solo Act was published in January of 2016 and was a finalist for the 2017 Maine Literary Awards in the Crime Fiction category. The prequel to Solo Act, In Solo Time, was published in September, 2017, and won the 2018 Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction. Burton's Solo, the third book, was published in 2018, and Last Call at the Esposito, the fourth in the series, in 2019. The most recent entry, Sweetie Bogan's Sorrow, was published in 2020.  Dick serves on the board of Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance and lives in Cape Elizabeth. Books from dozens of Maine authors will be available for purchase at Books in Boothbay, September 11, 2021. On-site book sales benefit the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library and the Boothbay Harbor Railway Village. Be sure to get your books signed by your favorite authors!