PEARCE HANSEN Pearce Hansen was born in SF into a train wreck of a family, and came up on the streets of Oakland in the ’70s.  Functionally homeless at a young age, he’s almost completely self-educated through omnivorous reading: he counts Thucydides & Spillane, Dostoevski & H.P. Lovecraft, Dickens & Nietzsche among his dear friends.  He spent decades in “the Life,” misspending his youth careening from one terror-in-retrospect abortive learning experience to the next. Cab driver, bouncer, kick boxer, Marine: all the stereotypical noir writer’s breeding grounds apply here.  He’s had some pretty insane adventures along the way, starring a diverse cast of characters in some extremely surreal milieus.  He’s been writing for ten years, drawing on the experiences of an upbringing spent on the floor of Hell as disposable gutter trash.  He writes because he’s good at it, and because he has no choice.

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