Mt. Vernon teacher pens third novel
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- October
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Christopher Scott Durant was a track and field champion in high school and now teaches elementary school in Mt. Vernon. He has also written three suspense thrillers, which is the subject of this entry.
Durant’s book titles are intriguing: “Equal Rights,” “My Daughter’s Keeper,” and “Grey Alien.”
And, there are local connections:
His newest novel, The Grey Alien, opens up in Westchester County in White Plains, where he currently lives, and is set in and around our local area — places in Westchester, Harlem (where the main character is from and lives), the Bronx, New York City, he told me in a recent email.
He says all of his novels ” deal with many serious and interesting issues.”
“In The Grey Alien, there is a part in the book set in Yonkers when some racist Yonkers Police officers are trying to kill an innocent black man (sound familiar?) who has done nothing wrong and the superhero in the book saves the man’s life and fights off the racist Yonkers cops in doing so (we need someone like that in real life to deal with the real life racist Yonkers Police Department),” he explains.
He says his first two novels are set in Hartsdale, where he grew up.
His second novel “My Daughter’s Keeper” is the sequel to his first novel, “Equal Rights.” “My Daughter’s Keeper”deals with a huge political scandal that involves murder among other things, and there have been a lot of political scandals here in Westchester and throughout the country recently,” he adds.
Durant graduated from Woodlands High School, and currently teaches fourth grade in Mount Vernon at the Edward Williams Elementary School.
When I asked him how he has he energy to write suspense novels after teaching all day, he said it was a good balance to his work.
“I can teach and still write books because I always try to have the mentality to try to enjoy life and not get into that rut of just going to work, then go home and sleep, and then go back to work etc.,” he said. “So even though I work real hard when I’m teaching the kids, I like to do things for me that I also like away from work. And I get a lot of my writing done in the summer when school is out.”
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on Friday, October 31st, 2008 at 8:30 am by Barbara Nackman.
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