Silence

Born in Bloomington, Indiana in 19**, Silence X. Whittaker has lived throughout the United States but still considers himself a Hoosier at heart. He has logged time in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and now lives in Atwater, California, with his second wife and four children.
Whittaker returned to Indiana in 19**, when he enrolled at Indiana University. He intended to obtain a degree in chemistry and continue on to medical school; events in his life (that is, his penchant for alcohol and partying) steered him towards less-demanding academic work and he graduated in December, 1991 with a degree in English. With this extremely useful degree, Whittaker was astonished to find that he could not get any work during the recession. He was forced into work by the clash of his mid-western worth ethic and the harping of his ex-wife and spent the years of his youth having his vitality and optimism sucked out of him by the fast-food industry, in which he was a manager at Taco Bell, McDonald's, Boston Market, and Beacon Oil. Whittaker refuses to speak about these days.
Following a near nervous break down, Whittaker went back to school and taught emotionally disturbed children at a non-public school in Turlock, California for four years. This served to heighten his cynicism and disillusionment with the world. Whittaker left the school in October 2001 to become an educational psychologist at a large school district in Stanislaus County, and where he spent his days trying not to throttle teachers and administrators.
In June 2006 Whittaker because a program specialist in Turlock, California, and now spends his days looking for a stiff ceiling and a length of rope to hang himself from.A little about the books:
ISBN 0-7388-6747-0
A Thing So Small: What happens when a child, possessed by his desire for a father, climbs through the man's window and finds his daughter, the only barrier to happiness, dead? Parris Montgomery Bishop has never wanted anything but a father and now it seems as if his dream will finally be realized; why does Fate seem to conspire against him? The reader journeys with Parris through the exhilaration of a boy finding a father and then the despair of losing him, the sadness of realizing that he never could have held on to him, and then elation as Parris, sentenced to jail for assaulting his mother, begins his journey and decides to accept control of his life again, inspiring and uplifting as the boy we have come to sympathze with becomes reborn.
ISBN 1-4010-0405-9
No Crab: What happens when two men with two different designs for their fiction unite to write a book together? The result is No Crab, a collection of short stories and novel excerpts from writers Delbert Devins and Silence Whittaker, and a unique, enlightening document that shows two unique approaches to their beloved medium.
ISBN 1-4010-1755-X
The Stone Gods Did Not Make a Sound: When a night intended to be one of emergence, timed so that a young man may discard his old persona for a newer, more interesting one, an accidental murder begins the reader on the emotional, bold exploration of the friendship of four men who were best friends in college. Harold must go on the run, convinced the police know of his guilt; Richard and Davis, separated by time and unseuccessful relationships, must try to repair their own friendship to find Harold and tell him that he is not a suspect. When their last friend, Genesis, emerges from obscurity, hounded with his own debts and an impending charge of embezzlement, finds out that money is involved, the reader will experience the highs and lows of the friendship, will feel disappointment and disgust at how some of the men have changed, uplifted as the characters themselves delineate the meaning and the terms of their freiendship, and shock as the book reaches its climax with a dangerous car accident, two friends, and one gun on the side of an Indiana interstate.