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Terry Davis (born 1947) is an American novelist. He was born in, and lived near Spokane, Washington for many years, and is a professor emeritus of English at Minnesota State University, Mankato (MSU Mankato), where he taught Creative writing – fiction and screenwriting – as well as adolescent literature. Davis, who has been a high school English teacher and a wrestling coach, is the author of three novels for young adults: ''Vision Quest'' (1979), ''Mysterious Ways'' (1984), and ''If Rock & Roll Were a Machine'' (1992). He has also written ''Presenting Chris Crutcher'', a biography of the respected young-adult author. John Irving called ''Vision Quest'' "the truest novel about growing up since ''Catcher in the Rye''," and said, "it's a better novel about wrestling, and wrestlers, than ''The World According to Garp''."〔Davis, Terry (1980) Vision Quest, London, England: Chatto and Windus, dust jacket note. ISBN 0-7011-2509-8〕 ''Vision Quest'' was made into a 1985 movie of the same title, starring Matthew Modine and Linda Fiorentino. ==Early life== Terry Davis was born and raised in Spokane. The son of a housewife and a sales executive, Davis excelled at Shadle Park High School as a wrestler and basketball player, then studied English at Eastern Washington University where he met fellow student Chris Crutcher – a year his senior. Recognized early as a gifted writer, Davis went from Eastern to study under John Irving at the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, and later at Stanford University as an honored Wallace Stegner Literary Fellow. It was here that the novel ''Vision Quest'' began to take shape. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Terry Davis (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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