![]() Koontz married his high school girlfriend Gerda, to whom he is still married and who he deeply admires. Koontz saw flaws in the program and ways in which the money didn't reach the population it was intended to help. After college, he taught school in Pennsylvania and worked and became frustrated with the Appalachian Poverty Program, designed to help poor children. Senior year in college, Koontz won a fiction competition sponsored by Atlantic Monthly. He was unfaithful with multiple women. Raymond Koontz was abusive to both he and his mother. Dean recalls his mother standing up to his father courageously despite her diminutive height. He remembers his father being the town drunk. He lost over 30 jobs, and the family went through great hardship. Koontz' father was alcoholic, mentally ill and unstable. He was close to his mother, who died when he was just 21. He grew up incredibly poor in a small town in Pennsylvania. He shared about being born in 1945 to become the only child of his parents. ![]() Koontz was remarkably open and vulnerable at his OC Register interview. While I've enjoyed several of his books and knew that he was living here in Orange County, California, I didn't know anything about his own personal story until I heard him do a live interview last Thursday evening at the Orange County Register. ![]() Fourteen of his hardcovers and fourteen of his paperbacks have reached the number one position on the New York Times Bestseller list. ![]() Dean Koontz has written over one hundred novels and is one of America's top suspense thriller writers. ![]()
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