Archer mayor age

Interview

Archer Mayor answers questions about himself, and his long-running series featuring Vermont police officer Joe Gunther, including why he never writes about what he knows, and instead writes about what he wants to find out about!

PW: What's your background?
AM: I'm a global bum.

I've lived all over the world, in 30 to 40 places.

Crosscut archer mayor

My mother is Argentine, my father was born outside Gloucester, Mass. My work background is nothing if not chaotically peripatetic&#;journalism, editing, historical writing. What sew it all together are the twin engines that fuel me as a writer&#;ignorance and curiosity.

I never write about what I know, but what I want to find out about.

PW: Why do you write mysteries?
AM: I wanted to make a living as a writer and pragmatically if there was a chance to do so&#;and statistically there isn't&#;mysteries were a viable market then [the s].

Mysteries were no longer about good or ba