Haseley, Dennis
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1950- ) US psychotherapist and author who specialized for many years in picture books, the most ambitious of which – like Ghost Catcher (graph 1989), about a man without a shadow who retrieves people from the brink of death – are of general interest. Typically of this author, Dr Gravity (1992), a Young Adult novel, describes the consequences on others of exceptional individuals, in this case a man with power over Gravity who by "freeing" his fellows of its effects generates chaos. A Trick of the Eye (2004) is a fantasy whose young protagonist can enter literally into paintings. [JC]
Dennis L Haseley
born Brecksville, Ohio: June 1950
works (highly selected)
- Ghost Catcher (New York: Harper, 1989) with Lloyd Bloom [graph: hb/Lloyd Bloom]
- Dr Gravity (New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1992) [hb/John S Dykes]
- A Trick of the Eye (New York: Dial Books, 2004) [hb/]
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