Max Yoho

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Max Yoho (born 1934 in Colony, Kansas) began writing humorous books and poetry in 1988 after becoming a widower. Max has written several books including The Revival and Tales from Comanche County.

[edit] Biography

Max Yoho was born in Colony, Kansas in 1934. In 1944 Max moved with his family to Atchison, Kansas and in 1949 to Topeka, Kansas. He graduated from Topeka High School in 1953. Following graduation, he enrolled at Washburn University where his writing talents were identified. He wrote for the The Review, a student newspaper.

Max worked as a machinist and retired in 1992. He published his first humorous work, The Revival, in 2001 and won the 2002 J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award of the Kansas Authors Club. He is the only Kansas author to have two titles, The Moon Butter Route and The Revival in the Kansas Center for the Book's Favorite Kansas Books list. Other books from this list include Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, Robert Day's The Last Cattle Drive, and L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Max's third novel, The Moon Butter Route, was named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas State Librarian in 2006 and received the 2007 J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award of the Kansas Authors Club.

The Revival and Tales from Comanche County are currently available as unabridged audio books from Books In Motion of Spokane, Washington.

Max lives with his wife Carol at their home in Topeka, Kansas.

[edit] Books

The Revival, 2001, Dancing Goat Press, ISBN 0-9708160-0-6

Tales From Comanche County, 2002, Dancing Goat Press (this title is no longer in print)

Felicia, These Fish Are Delicious, 2004, Dancing Goat Press, ISBN 0-9708160-3-0
The Moon Butter Route, 2006, Dancing Goat Press, ISBN 0-9708160-4-9