John Bernard Ruane

About The Author

John Bernard Ruane wrote for the Chicago Sun-Time for nearly a decade, the paper he first delivered as a boy.  He has also written five plays all produced in his home town of Chicago.  His short film Comedy on Rye won the Illinois FilmCam Award.  For the past fifteen year, he has owned an operated a marketing and communications company and coached youth sports.  He and his wife Charlotte recently celebrated his twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.  They have four children and reside in Roswell, Georgia.

 

Books by John Bernard Ruane

Parish the Thought

An Inspirational Memoir of Growing Up Catholic in the 1960s

By John Bernard Ruane
In a warm and affectionate narrative that "transports readers back to a time before cable television, cell phones, and the Internet" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution), John Bernard Ruane paints a marvelous portrait of his Irish-Catholic boyhood on the southwest side of Chicago in the 1960s...
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