Magic at Culver - Paperback

by Richard Gwyn Davies (Author)

Magic at Culver is a trilogy about an American teen and his Welsh pal who challenge two rogue Native Americans seeking to harm people at their prep school in Indiana. In this struggle they receive unexpected help from various sources: a young woman shaman from Notre Dame, a Buddhist nun, an African Sufi mystic and young Pau-koo-shuck, a ghostly figure from Culver's past. These individuals join their adult mentors and classmates to tap into deep magic in a classic battle between good and evil. This battle echoes Ragnorok and the siege of Minas Tirith but is set in the Middle West-not Middle Earth.

Author Biography

Richard Gwyn Davies was born in 1941, son of a Welshman and a Tennessean; he grew up on a farm in Northern Indiana. After earning his undergraduate degree from DePauw University, he entered the Peace Corps, returning to the US to teach at Culver Military Academy in 1966. Davies went on to get his MA at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He taught in south Wales and spent two years at Oxford before returning to Culver in 1974. Davies also served as a congressional aide in Washington. He earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University and another M. A. from Teachers College, Columbia University. He taught Humanities to 9th graders and Myth, Literature and Popular Culture to 12th graders at the Culver Academies before his retirement in 2008. He now lives in the Maria Center attached to the Mother-house of the Poor Handmaids, a Roman Catholic Religious order in Donaldson, Indiana. He is currently tasking an on line course in the Welsh language based at the University of Wales at Lampeter in mid Wales.