Clarence Bonner(I)
Clarence (Dean) Bonner was born and raised in rural Georgia but can claim naturalized citizenship in Tallapoosa County, Alabama and Virginia Beach, Virginia as a retired Coast Guard veteran. Bonner left the tarpaper shacks of Appalachia for a long military career, rising through the enlisted and officer ranks. He was a skilled Morse telegrapher and a calming voice during many search and rescue cases. He left a town of 300 souls to travel the world, living in Boston, New Orleans, DC, and even on the island of Guam for a couple of years.
Dean is a skilled Studebaker car mechanic, tube radio repairman, firefighter, councilman, and a weekend gold prospector.
He turned his collection of (mostly) humorous nonfiction stories into a Southern Gothic, dark humor television series with a working title Tar Nation. Tar Nation is under a development contract with Council Tree Productions.
His upcoming projects include recording two audio albums of his original humor and writing a new compilation of short stories.
His wife Patricia, a multi-talented artist, shares these same interests. They are renovating four 1910 commercial buildings to help revitalize the poverty-stricken, largely minority Alabama town they call home.
He was a contributing editor for Lisa Ditchkoff's book The Girl with Caterpillar Eyebrows, about surviving and educating herself while she grew up in hiding from her father, an associate of Boston mobster Whitey Bulger. Dean was a winner in nonfiction in the state's largest writing competition, the 2013 Alabama Literary Competition organized by the Alabama Writers' Conclave. He competed against writers nationwide with his nonfiction short story Seeking Asylum about visiting his mother in the state insane asylum when he was three. That story is one of many in the Tar Nation TV series.
Contact: Dean Bonner, or through Council Tree Productions
He turned his collection of (mostly) humorous nonfiction stories into a Southern Gothic, dark humor television series with a working title Tar Nation. Tar Nation is under a development contract with Council Tree Productions.
His upcoming projects include recording two audio albums of his original humor and writing a new compilation of short stories.
His wife Patricia, a multi-talented artist, shares these same interests. They are renovating four 1910 commercial buildings to help revitalize the poverty-stricken, largely minority Alabama town they call home.
He was a contributing editor for Lisa Ditchkoff's book The Girl with Caterpillar Eyebrows, about surviving and educating herself while she grew up in hiding from her father, an associate of Boston mobster Whitey Bulger. Dean was a winner in nonfiction in the state's largest writing competition, the 2013 Alabama Literary Competition organized by the Alabama Writers' Conclave. He competed against writers nationwide with his nonfiction short story Seeking Asylum about visiting his mother in the state insane asylum when he was three. That story is one of many in the Tar Nation TV series.
Contact: Dean Bonner, or through Council Tree Productions