![]() ![]() He is married to two-time Caldecott Award winner, Nonny Hogrogian, with whom he has collaborated on a number of children’s book, and also on three journals, Ararat, Forkroads: A Journal of Ethnic-American Literature, and Stopinder: A Gurdjieff Journal for Our Time. An hour-long documentary on his poetry, by New York independent filmmaker, Jim Belleau, was released in 1997. It is based on the life of the authors mother, Veron Dumehjian (1907-1981), who survived the Armenian genocide. Contributions to Beat literature include the bio-bibliograpy, Six Poets of the San Francisco Renaissance: Portraits and Checklists and Beat Voices: An Anthology of Beat Literature. The Road from Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope, earlier titled The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl, is a non-fiction book written by David Kherdian, originally published in 1979. His biography of his mother, The Road From Home, his best known work, has been continuously in print in various editions and 17 translations. As an editor he has produced two seminal anthologies: Settling America: The Ethnic Expression of 14 Contemporary American Poets, and Down at the Santa Fe Depot: 20 Fresno Poets, which inspired over 100 city and state anthologies. He has also written a narrative life of The Buddha. ![]() In addition to his poetry, biographies, novels, and memoirs, his translations and retellings have included the Asian classic Monkey: A Journey to the West, and the soon-to-be released 9th century Armenian bardic epic, David of Sassoun. David Kherdian was born in Racine, Wisconsin, the site of his 13-volume Root River Cycle. ![]()
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