About
Rundy Purdy was born in 1981 and homeschooled until graduation from highschool. He is the author of The Stuttering Bard of York and Arielle’s Wedding, along with numerous essays. He has been telling stories since before he could write, and doodling ever since he first laid hands on a pen, but is best known for his light-hearted writing and his moving accounts of caring for his ailing grandfather.
A few highlights:
- At fifteen Rundy started writing the first novel he would actually finish (but not publish)
- In September 2006 Rundy began to care for his grandfather, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s
- In December 2006 Rundy Published his humorous novel The Stuttering Bard of York
- In Auguest 2008 Jane Gross at the NYT blog “The New Old Age” called Rundy’s writing about caregiving “as touching as ‘Tuesdays With Morrie,’ as tender as John Bayley’s memoir of his wife, Iris Murdoch, and in many ways truer and more tough-minded than either.”
- In September 2009 Rundy’s grandfather died.
- Rundy is currently nearly completed with the novel The Stuttering Duke of York and is working on collecting his writing about his years of caring for his grandfather
When not writing, Rundy enjoys reading, designing websites, painting and drawing, bicycling, spending time outside, taking photographs, buildings things and putzing around—not necessarily in that order. Currently he lives in upstate New York.
For the curious, “Rundy” is not his legal name, but it is indeed what he has been called since an infant.
