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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | freelance writer and book reviewer, at-home Dad |
| Location | Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Introduction | Edward Pettit is a freelance book reviewer and writes the Bibliothecary blog. After having spent the first twenty-seven years of his life in the same Philadelphia neighborhood, he now resides just outside the "Athens of America" in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania with his lovely wife, five daughters and lottsa books. He can usually be found on the third floor of his home amidst the tobacco fog of his pipe, head buried deep in the pages of Moby-Dick. |
| Interests | pipe smoking, books, movies, George Lippard, Moby-Dick, Samuel Johnson, Literary Forgery, Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Philadelphia, noir, bibliomysteries, bibliomania, Beowulf, Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare, Arthurian Literature, Christopher Morley, Lexicography, Ken Bruen, Sir John Fielding, 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia |
| Favorite Movies | Lawrence of Arabia, The Godfather, Blues Brothers, The Third Man, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Adventures of Robin Hood, Duck Soup, Star Wars, Rocky, Raging Bull, Empire Strikes Back, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Touch of Evil, Bridge on the River Kwai, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Seven Samurai, On the Waterfront, Knightriders, Oliver Twist, Henry V, The Sea Hawk, Citizen Kane, Dr Strangelove, The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, The Set-up, Rififi, The Wild Bunch, Don't Look Now, Ride the High Country |
| Favorite Music | Bruce Springsteen, Buddy Holly, Bob Dylan, Bodeans, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Alt Country, Steve Earle, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Georgia Satellites |
| Favorite Books | Moby-Dick, Boswell's Life of Johnson, The Lord of the Rings, Sherlock Holmes stories, The Guards, Edgar Allan Poe stories, The Wheelman, Beowulf, Le Morte Darthur, Shandygaff, Cockfighter, Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, Hamlet, The Quaker City or the Monks of Monk Hall, Oxford English Dictionary |