Dennis Vannatta: author, speaker, expert

Learn why The Care and Feeding of the True Duffer is the ultimate book for duffers who want to improve, save money—or enjoy side-splitting laughter

The Care and Feeding of the True Duffer: A Guide to Golf in the Real World well may be the first book written by a duffer for duffers—those downtrodden golfers who have been inexorably hooked on the game for decades but aren't, never have been and are unlikely ever to be better than below-average players.

Yet The Care and Feeding of the True Duffer offers compelling evidence that a duffer can provide advice to fellow duffers that actually might improve their games more than that rendered by a professional golfer and offers countless tips on how duffers, and perhaps even accomplished golfers and certainly newcomers to the sport, can save considerable money on their favorite passion.

And in a genre that has produced many classics, author Dennis Vannatta, who admittedly will never play in the Masters, has produced a hilariously funny masterpiece that is filled with humorous anecdotes that will be treasured not only by duffers, but by novices, skilled players or anyone who enjoys side-splitting laughter.

About the Author/Expert: Dennis Vannatta, award-winning author of The Care and Feeding of the True Duffer: A Guide to Golf in the Real World, has spent the bulk of his career as a college professor and writer. Although he has been an English professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he specializes in contemporary literature, since 1978, Dr. Vannatta has found the time to write eight books.

Vannatta's previous books include four on literary criticism—Nathanael West: An Annotated Bibliography of the Scholarship and Works; H.E. Bates; The English Short Story, 1945-1980: A Critical History, and Tennessee Williams: A Study of the Short Fiction. Vannatta also has written dozens of essays in journals and reference works and three collections of short stories—This Time, This Place' Stories; Players for the Dead: Stories, and Lives of the Artists: Stories—and dozens of stories and creative essays in journals and anthologies. He was awarded the prestigious Pushcart Prize for the short story in 1991.

The Care and Feeding of the True Duffer is Vannatta's first book about his frequently frustrating 40-year love affair with golf.

To book Vannatta, call 501-224-0966, or e-mail him at dpvannatta@ualr.edu.