See more about Larry at www.larrykerrauthor.com

Larry was born and grew up in western Pennsylvania. He graduated from Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania and attended graduate school at Penn State. He worked various jobs before beginning his newspaper career. Larry was a reporter/photographer at two small newspapers in western Pennsylvania prior to taking a position as a copy editor at a newspaper in south central Pennsylvania. He held that job for nearly ten years until moving into web programming. He now works for a state agency serving the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Always interested in fiction, Larry began writing in earnest in 2004.

Damnation Books published his first novel, By the Light of the Moon, in March 2011.

His second book is due out in the early fall of 2012. Preliminary title is The Hunley. This Civil War historical fiction book has drama, suspense, action and a love story.

He's had several short stories published since 2010. See them in the anthologies listed here.

He won an honorable mention in the Mechanicsburg, PA, Cloak & Dagger Book Group's mystery short story contest for 2005. He also won an honorable mention

in the 2007 Central PA magazine short story contest.

An avid runner, Larry has been running for more than thirty years. He's run a marathon and in 2007, he participated in the National Senior Games.

He also plays softball and bowls.

He has one son, Randy.

Larry lives in south central Pennsylvania and is single.