Henry Van Dyke Author

Henry Van Dyke (1928 - 2011) was born in Allegan, Michigan, and grew up in Montgomery, Alabama. He served in the Army in occupied Germany before beginning to write. In 1958, after attending the University of Michigan on the G.I. Bill and living in Ann Arbor, he moved to New York, where he spent the rest of his life. He taught creative writing at Kent State University from 1969 until his retirement in 1993. Van Dyke wrote four novels.