Update on author Andy Straka ‘80. (Previous Straka coverage here.)

To 8-year-old Andy Straka, the Sherburne Public Library loomed like an enchanted palace over East State Street.

“Looking back, I realize it WAS a magic castle or some sort of magic portal for me, in that it transported me into a world of reading and imagination I had scarcely known existed,” says Andy, now 49 and living in Virginia. From that time on, he dreamed of being a writer.

Now, with shining book reviews extolling his name in Publishers Weekly and other major publications, he’s living his dream.
 

Read the whole thing. Many Ephs feel the same about the local public library from their youth. Straka is married to Dr. Bonnie (Foster) Straka ‘80, a dermatologist. There are few wiser paths in life than marrying an Eph dermatologist . . .