User:Kilburnhall

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1 Kilburn Hall
2 Early Years
3 The poorer side of town
4 The boys of summer
5 Listen to the color of your dreams
6 Farewell Teach
7 Future Projects
8 Red Ball Quote
9 Collected Works
10 Trivia
11 External Links

[edit] Kilburn Hall

Kilburn Hall is a product of the 1960's and The Chicago Junior School in East Dundee, Illinois. The author of nine books, he is best known for the sequel to James Hilton's 1934 Lost Horizon titled, Karakal (Lost Horizon-The Return) and The Killing Of A Robin trilogy, The Killing Of A Robin, Nothing Personal-Just Business Darling and The Red Ball.
Kilburn Hall divides his time between the mountains of Colorado and Northern Arizona.

[edit] Early Years

Kilburn Hall began September 1963 [[2]]on the sixty-acre campus of the Chicago Junior School along the banks of the Fox River in East Dundee, Illinois. Abandoned by his mother in a private school at the age of nine, the staff of the private co-ed boarding school became his extended family. The man he remembers as his father was a railroad engineer by the name of Marshall Needham raising two children alone. The Chicago Junior School, an exclusive boarding school, required students to live on campus so Kilburn Hall and his sibling were literally raised on the sixty-acre campus which was home to wild turkey’s, pheasants, deer, horses and a freshwater underground spring named "Rock Garden." In the summers he attended Camp Wa-Ta-Ga-Mie on the school grounds. The social environment was affiliated with the Christian Science Churchand the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy. Kilburn Hall was at the school until graduating from the eighth grade in 1970. He credits his English teacher Beatrice Royer for giving him his life’s philosophy which is,

“It’s no lie to believe.”

[edit] The poorer side of town

Upon graduation, Kilburn Hall moved to the Southside of Elgin, where he attended a gang-banging junior high and high school. When his mother had a nervous breakdown, he and his sibling went to live with the State of Illinois. He put himself through [3]community college in Elgin where he met and fell in love with a gentle soul. [[4]]Young kids when they married, the marriage lasted a little over a year.

[edit] The boys of summer

In the 1980's, Kilburn Hall hit the road with his best friend Margie living and traveling all over the [[5]]United States in a variety of occupations ranging from food service, retail, hotel operations, school teacher, customer service and time-share sales. He re-discovered his love of journalism where he had been an editor, film critic, reporter, sports-writer, advertising and classified salesman for a string of Northwest Illinois newspapers.

[edit] Listen to the color of your dreams

The summer of 1999 in Flagstaff, Arizona, encouraged by the late musician Michael Hedges he re-discovered his dream of becoming a full-time author to write his first novel, [[6]]Karakal (Lost Horizon-The Return) the sequel to James Hilton’s 1934 Lost Horizon.

The summer of 2001, loosely based on a real-life incident, he wrote his second novel, The Killing of A Robin[[7]] in the tradition of Laura by Vera Caspary. The sequel came a year later titled, Nothing Personal-Just Business Darling. [[8]] The final book in The Killing of A Robin trilogy, The Red Ball[[9]] was completed in 2005.

[edit] Farewell Teach

In March of 2005, Kilburn Hall lost his mentor and English teacher, Beatrice Royer at age 92. Most of his other mentor’s from the 1960’s, Mel Manthy, Marshall Needham have also passed away.

[edit] Future Projects

Kilburn Hall is interested in the paranormal, travel, adventure, extra-terrestrial life and time-travel which are recurring theme's in his stories. The author of eight novels he divides his time between the mountains of Colorado and Northern Arizona. Kilburn Hall is working on a new novel, called The Red Ball, the finale in The Killing of a Robin trilogy which takes place in Chicago, IL. and feature's Santeria and the Church Of Satan. Kilburn Hall's promotional website about [[10]]The Red Ball states that:

[edit] Red Ball Quote

There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. But Satan has his miracles to. Chicago Homicide Detective Tom Murphy, who has solved 92-percent of some 300 cases, is a Satan among detectives, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. When his wife was diagnosed with cancer, he hit the bottle. When he buried her the next spring, he climbed into it. Administrative leave and psychological counseling came next, before he slipped up and killed someone or got himself killed. About to be drummed out of the Chicago Police Department, he was suddenly reactivated to Homicide and assigned a Red Ball no less, the murder that matters. One of the Brass-Monkey's in the department either thinks the case can’t be solved or doesn’t want the case solved. When the shit hit’s the fan, they’re looking for a fall guy and washed up cops make the perfect fall guy.

[edit] Collected Works

[Karakal (Lost Horizon-The Return)]

The Killing of a Robin trilogy:
[The Killing of a Robin]
[Nothing Personal-Just Business Darling]
[The Red Ball]

The Return of the Master
Bukkake
The Good, the Bad and the Buddha
Red Indians (a James Bond 007 thriller)
The Burning Season
Sinuagua

[edit] Trivia

Characters in Kilburn Hall’s books are often named after and based on real people in his life.

While growing up in boarding school he and his sibling were often left at the school during the Christmas holiday so he can identify with J.K. Rowling’s character Harry Potter in The Sorcerer’s Stone, also left on campus during Christmas breaks. [[11]] He remembers kindly his former headmaster Charles Trick as being akin to Albus Dumbledore. During the summer, Kilburn Hall picked enough cherries from the school’s cherry tree’s to enable the cook, Ann Osgoodby to bake several dozen cherry pies for summer camp. His sibling, who once fantasized as a child about being a Wild Angel biker by the name of "Loser" now teaches motorcycle safety school for Harley Davidson.

Kilburn Hall backpacks in the fall and does his writing in book stores all over the country. His favorite haunt is Border’s Book’s at Woodfield Mall, Schaumburg, Illinois and [Barnes Nobles] in Flagstaff, Arizona.

His favorite movie is the 1946 Stairway To Heaven (A matter of life and death).