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  Description This book covers the gamut of what goes on in a San Francisco writer’s life and mind. It covers everything about writing, from becoming a writer to getting published to promoting a book to writing itself. It covers the Bush/Gore presidential race of 2000, baseball and football, family, friends, exercise, touring Greece and […]

Description Where were you in 2010?  What were you doing?  What was going on in the country that year?  San Francisco writer Joseph Sutton, who’s been keeping a journal since 1970, tells you what he was doing and what was going on in the country in 2010.  It was the year he decided to become […]

Description This book chronicles the life of a writer, mainly his thoughts on the writing process and self-publishing.  It also gives a picture of the United States in the year 2008, when the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq dragged on, when the Great Recession wreaked havoc on the economy, and when Barack Obama was elected […]

Description This book is a history of one year in a writer’s life, as well as the country’s life.  It’s about what went through Joseph Sutton’s mind while COVID-19, George Floyd’s death, Biden vs. Trump, and the birth of his first grandson took place. Thursday, January 16, 2020 – Upcoming Impeachment Trial Donald Trump was impeached […]

Description This one-year journal is the unfolding story of a writer, walker, husband, father, former teacher, and ex-college football player.  It’s the story of 54-year-old man who thinks, creates, dreams, doubts, regrets, and who writes honestly and fearlessly of his past and present life. Thursday, January 27, 1994—The Man Who Discovered Me For the past […]

Description A Beginning Writer’s Journal:  1970-1972 reveals what Joseph Sutton went through to finish the first writing project of his life, a novel about his experimental teaching experience at an inner-city high school in Los Angeles.  Although Sutton struggled with bouts of writer’s block and fluctuation of moods, this book shows how he evolved to […]

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“I’ve written about the two previous World Series seasons of 2010 and 2012, why not write a third book combining all three championship seasons? And that’s what I did.”

The cover with Tim Lincecum on the left was about the 2010 World Series season. The cover with Pablo Sandoval in the middle was about the 2010 and 2012 World Series seasons. The cover with Madison Bumgarner on the right incorporates the text of all three World Series seasons.    

The life and work of a writer is often a mixture of fact and fiction. Yet for many writers some of the best stories they share come from real life, especially their own. This can be said of San Francisco-based writer Joseph Sutton who has recently published a semi-autobiographical work called The Life and Death of Abraham Massry and Other Stories.

Marty Lurie, San Francisco radio sports show host, interviewing author Joseph Sutton about his book, “The YEARS the Giants Won the Series.”

I just finished reading an article on the Internet—”What is it Like to Teach Black Students?”—by Christopher Jackson, a white history teacher who taught in a predominantly black high school in a southeastern state.

It may have taken him over 40 years to get his book published, but San Francisco author Joseph Sutton is proud and excited about his latest novel A Class of Leaders. Set in 1969 at a black ghetto high school in South Central Los Angeles, the names have been changed but the words of the students are taken from Sutton’s real life experience as a teacher.