Sidney Augustus Staunton, Jr.

Author, The Yarn Yard an historical fiction novel due out in 2013; Co-author, The Yarning www.theyarning.com, companion blog. Sidney A. Staunton, Jr. was born in New York City in 1962, and raised in New Canaan, Connecticut, the eldest of five children, Staunton attended Westminster Prep School in Simsbury, Connecticut and attended Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio with a liberal arts focus. He then transferred to Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature in 1987. He chose the plaster and stucco trade and a rural lifestyle, mainly to support a writer’s vocation – primarily as a poet. Currently, he is engaged in a first-run attempt at an historical fiction novel entitled, The Yarn Yard.