About Joseph Emmrich

About the author:

Joseph Emmrich’s third book and second novel is another genre bender. YATTANI and the SPECTERS of THUNDER immerses the reader in a stone age culture with a strong cast of characters, who according to the author, told him how the story would go, irrespective of what he thought. His previous books are WHEN IT WAS GOOD, a true-life travel humor and THE PARAGON, a fictional adventure story about the journey of Jesus to the East in the years not reported in The Bible.

As a humorist and author of WHEN IT WAS GOOD, he might describe his biography this way: Joseph Emmrich was born in Cincinnati in 1947, shortly after The Age of the Dinosaurs. He worked some years as a prosecutor, where his friends said he “persecuted the innocent”. At age thirty, he quit his job and traveled two years in Europe, Africa and Asia. When he returned to the United States, he spent many years as a public defender, where his friends said he “freed the guilty”. While the latter may have been technically correct, since he just couldn’t win, he decided to retire (again) and travel (some more) and write.

Joseph has traveled 48 states and 50-some countries, and not been thrown out of any of them that he can remember, nor even held for questioning.

As author of THE PARAGON, he would say he’s always had an abiding interest in comparative religion and spirituality. His muses for THE PARAGON include Joseph Campbell and Herman Hesse. Personally, he’d say he’s mostly a Taoist, and that’s the sensibility he brings to the epic of the Nazarene.

Now, as author of YATTANI and the SPECTERS of THUNDER, he’s drawn inspiration from the places he’s traveled and people he’s connected with. As far as muses are concerned for YATTANI, he’d list the authors of Genesis and Job, Vergil, and maybe Jules Verne, who was the first author he ever read.

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