James Guide to Young Adult Writers commented. "His protagonists are not perfect young men," the contributor further noted. "They are adolescents who have seen their share of grief and failure. Yet, somehow, they manage to rise above what is lacking in their lives." Davis--in his novels
Vision Quest, Mysterious Ways, and
If Rock and Roll Were a Machine--uses school athletics or the saving grace of an interest in motorcycles to center his protagonists, drawing strongly out of personal experience for each of these titles.
A Precocious Kid
Davis described himself in his interview with AAYA as a physically and intellectually precocious child." Born in Spokane, Washington in 1947, Terence Albert Davis was an only child. "My mom and my dad and my mom's folks read to me constantly when I was little, and I learned to read early and then read constantly to myself." One book Davis remembers best as a very young reader was The Little Engine That Could. Soon he graduated to sports stories and tales of the outdoors.
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