Terry Trueman Biography

Stuck in Neutral About the Author

Terry Trueman has been an educator, counselor, and writer for about thirty years. He draws on his own experiences with young people, personal and professional, to create the story of Stuck in Neutral.

Trueman was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1947 but soon moved to Seattle, Washington. He declares in his "unauthorized autobiography" ("unauthorized" because he does not claim to tell truth), that he was not an exceptional student when young.

However, he did attend the University of Washington where he received a bachelor of science in creative writing, and later, he received both a master of science in applied psychology and master of fine arts in creative writing from Eastern Washington University. Trueman has also lived in Australia and Honduras.

Part of Trueman's youth was somewhat "misspent" as he lived the life of a hippie, traveled through Europe on a motorcycle, and married...
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