
Terry Davis (author)
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Terry Davis (born 1946) is an American novelist. He was born in, and lived near Spokane, Washington, for many years, and is a professor emeritus of English at Minnesota State University, Mankato (MSU Mankato), where he taught creative writing – fiction and screenwriting – as well as adolescent literature. Davis, who has been a high school English teacher and a wrestling coach, is the author of three novels for young adults: Vision Quest (1979), Mysterious Ways (1984), and If Rock & Roll Were a Machine (1992). He has also written Presenting Chris Crutcher, a biography of the respected young-adult author. John Irving called Vision Quest "the truest novel about growing up since Catcher in the Rye," and said, "it's a better novel about wrestling, and wrestlers, than The World According to Garp." Vision Quest was made into a 1985 movie of the same title, starring Matthew Modine and Linda Fiorentino.
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- •Place of birth: Spokane
- •Citizenship: United States
- •Known as: writer, novelist, children's writer, screenwriter