Report on my visit with author Chester Aaron

Chester showing us photos he took as a soldier who liberated Dachau.


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"I work in the fields all day, then come in and write every night from about 10:00 - midnight."

While I was on vacation, I went to visit Chester Aaron, the author of short stories, memoirs, recipe books and novels, in his idyllic solar house on a garlic farm tucked away in the foothills of northern California. I marveled as he talked about his life. He's done so much. Like many writers, he came to it after he'd achieved a lot in other fields.

There is something both courtly and down to earth about Chester Aaron......