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Donald O’Donovan was born in Cooperstown, New York. A teenage runaway, he rode freights and hitchhiked across America, served in the US Army with the 82nd Airborne Division, lived in Mexico, and worked at more than 200 occupations including telephone psychic, undertaker and roller skate repairman.

A former long distance truck driver, he wrote Highway while running 48 states and Canada for Schneider National. As a volunteer at the Braille Institute in Los Angeles he recorded several western novels, and subsequently studied voice acting with James Alburger and Penny Abshire. O’Donovan lived for two years at the historic Wilshire Royale Hotel while writing Tarantula Woman, and wrote the first draft of Night Train on 23 yellow legal pads while homeless in the streets of LA. 

An optioned screenwriter and voice actor with film and audio book credits, Donald O’Donovan lives mostly in Los Angeles.
Highway by Donald O'Donovan (eBook)
Highway
Highway is the road trip you always imagined but never took; mile after mile is marked with candid observations, outlandish circumstances and insights that define the American experience. 
Books by Donald O'Donovan
Donald O'Donovan
Tarantula Woman
Not since Charles Bukowski’s Factotum  has a transgressive autobiographical novel touched upon with such rawness the everyday realities of a modern-day American desperado.
Night Train
Written on twenty-three legal pads while homeless in the streets of LA, Night Train takes us on a journey detailing the plight of street people living in America.
Night Train by Donald O'Donovan
Tarantula Woman by Donald O'Donovan
Donald O'Donovan, author of Highway, Tarantula Woman, Night Train and The Sugarhouse
The Sugarhouse: A Novella (plus four novel excerpts) by Donald O'Donovan
The Sugarhouse
The Sugarhouse recalls a simpler time in America when friendships were unqualified, peccadilloes were overlooked, and tradition defined the cornerstone of society.
The Enchanted Forest narrated by Donald O'Donovan (Downloadsable Audio Book)
The Enchanted Forest
Novelist and voice actor Donald O'Donovan retells and narrates for modern listeners 21 classic fairy tales from many lands including such familiar favorites as Rumpelstiltskin, The Gingerbread Boy, Little Red Riding Hood, Chicken Little, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Thumbelina, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Three Little Pigs and Rapunzel.
Audio Books narrated by Donald O'Donovan
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