Duke Robinson
In 2000, Time Warner published the paperback version of Duke Robinson's award-winning hardcover book GOOD INTENTIONS, under the title TOO NICE FOR YOUR OWN GOOD: How to Stop Making 9 Self-Sabotaging Mistakes. It appeared in thirteen languages and as an early Kindle book. It continues to sell briskly. His second non-fiction book, CREATE YOUR BEST LIFE: How to Live Fully Knowing One Day You Will Die, appeared in December 2011, published through CreateSpace. In September 2012, he published his...See more
In 2000, Time Warner published the paperback version of Duke Robinson's award-winning hardcover book GOOD INTENTIONS, under the title TOO NICE FOR YOUR OWN GOOD: How to Stop Making 9 Self-Sabotaging Mistakes. It appeared in thirteen languages and as an early Kindle book. It continues to sell briskly. His second non-fiction book, CREATE YOUR BEST LIFE: How to Live Fully Knowing One Day You Will Die, appeared in December 2011, published through CreateSpace. In September 2012, he published his first novel, SAVIOR: An Old Notion in a New Novel of Unthinkable Absurdity, also through CreateSpace. Robinson was reared in the Philadelphia area, graduating in 1950 from Haverford High School. He holds a BA degree in philosophy (1954) from the Wheaton College near Chicago, and a Masters of Divinity degree (1958), from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He has lived since 1960, in the East Bay of Northern California. For 28 years before retiring to writing, Robinson led the dynamic, progressive Montclair Presbyterian Church in Oakland. For several years during that ministry he also served part-time as an adjunct professor at San Francisco Theological Seminary, from which he holds an earned doctorate (1979). Prior to retiring from the pastorate in 1996, he also was known widely as a speaker and appeared frequently on Northern California television. Since 2000, he has lived in Rossmoor, an active adult community in Walnut Creek, CA, thirty miles east of San Francisco. Barbara, his beloved wife of 54 years died in 2008 (He writes of her dying, and of his almost dying in 2009, in CREATE YOUR BEST LIFE). He has four mature children, nine wonderful grandchildren and two super-great, great-grandsons. In April 2014, Robinson published this award-winning A MIDDLE WAY: The Secular/Spiritual Road to Wholeness, his third nonfiction work. Robinson hit 82 in January 2015. This memoir, STANDING ON MY HEAD ... WITH MY FLY OPEN, became available in November 2015. See less