John Thorndike (born November 6, 1942 in New York City) is an American writer.
Biography
Thorndike lives in Athens, Ohio. He grew up in Westport, Connecticut, graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1960, and from Harvard in 1964, took an MA in English from Columbia in 1966, and spent two years in El Salvador in the Peace Corps. After seven years in Latin America, he returned to the U.S., settled in Ohio and farmed for ten years.
His first book was the novel Anna Delaney’s Child, about a woman whose nine-year-old son dies in a car crash.
His second novel was The Potato Baron, about the owner of a large potato farm in northern Maine who must choose between his wife—who wants to live somewhere other than Aroostook County—and the life he loves on his ancestral land.
