The Alchymist and The Silurist is a new historical novel based on the sometimes tortured life of Thomas Vaughan, a 17th-century Welsh Anglican pastor, who became obsessed with alchemy, and his twin brother Henry, the mystical poet known as the Silurist, distant kinsmen of author James Vaughan. Stories of the controversial alchymist were revived some two hundred years after his death by a roguish French writer named Gabrielle Jogand-Pages, who created elaborate hoaxes, pitting Freemasons against Catholics. Taxil published a series of salacious stories of the activities of Diana Vaughan, who had journeyed to Paris hoping to prove her kinship to the 17th-century Welsh scientist. The Alchymist and The Sillurist is followed by its sequel Diana and Leo. Click here for more information.
About the Author of these books and this web site
James E. Vaughan was born and reared in eastern Kentucky. He attended Michigan State College and served in the U. S. Navy during World War II, achieving the rank of lieutenant (jg). He received his BA in mathematics and physics from Oklahoma University in 1947, and his MSE degree in 1962. He managed a commercial broadcast station in Miami, Florida for a time before moving with his wife Wanda Lee to an Arkansas farm in 1955, where he lived for 50 years, teaching and writing. He was member of the Arkansas Educational Telecommunications Commission from 1980 to 1988, and played a major role in establishing a statewide academic competition known as Quiz Bowl, which endures to this day.
"A Study of Vocabulary Improvement Techniques" was published in the NSPI Journal No. 6 in 1968. Over a period of some twenty years he authored more than 60 instructional books, including Mr. Ready and Mr. Phun Phonics (AudioActive, 1975). His first work of fiction, a political story titled The Polemicists, won the 1993 Heartland Writers' Guild award for Contemporary Fiction. In 1996 his mystery story, The Case of La Grande Dame, was selected from more than 300 submissions to The New Yorker magazine for publication in an anthology. His Bankmules: The Story of Van Lear, a Kentucky Coal Town was published in 2003 by Jesse Stuart Foundation. The Alchymist and The Silurist is his first published novel, Diana and Leo his second. While both of these books are historical fiction (not genealogies), James Vaughan's Vaughan family history, The Vaughan Family in Wales and America, will also soon be available in paperback. James Vaughan wrote numerous software programs for early Apple computers, including Ceres: A Space Odyssey, which was included in NASA's Second Edition of Software for Aerospace Education in 1990 (p.24, Section 1). He turned his attention to PCs in 1990, and has developed e-Lynks. INDXR, aGoogling, and other interrelated web sites.
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