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James GAitis Literary Satire and Historical Fiction Writer

James GAitis

Biography

BA (English Literature) Notre Dame

JD, University of Iowa College of Law (editor, Iowa Law Review)

Fellow, College of Commercial Arbitrators (and co-editor and co-author of The College of Commercial Arbitrators Guide to Best Practices in Commercial Arbitration (C. von Kann, J. Gaitis, J. Lerhman Juris Pub 2006); Fellow & Chartered Arbitrator, Chartered Insitute of Arbitrators (UK).

sometime university academic (CEPMLP, Univeristy of Dundee, Scotland) and arbitrator, lover of wilderness and the great outdoors

Upcoming Works

  • A Nation's Highest Honor--a Novel in satire (forthcoming Kunati Books May 1, 2009)

    The View From Stansberry Lookout--a Novel in satire (now in search of publication)

Favorite Authors

  • Chekov & Tolstoy (best read in Russia), Edward Abbey, Graham Green, Faulkner, Neruda (but only in Spanish), Barry Lopez, Cormac McCarthy, Shakespeare & Marlow, Vonnegut, Terry Tempest Williams, Bulgakov,

Nickname

  • Jim

Relationship

  • Married--26 years (without a fight)

Causes I Support

  • The Nature Conservancy (in 2001 awarded lifetime membership for my conservation efforts to preserve the North Fork of the Flathead on the western border of Glacier National Park)

University Affiliation

  • University of Notre Dame (BA English Lit. 1976)
    University of Iowa College of Law (JD 1978)
    CEPMLP, University of Dundee, Scotland (currently a member of the Global Faculty)

Agents

  • None

Publishers

  • Globe Pequot--A Stout Cord and a Good Drop--A Novel of the Founding of Montana (2006)
    Kunati Books--The Nation's Highest Honor (Forthcoming May 1, 2009)

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