Philip Gerard
CommentatorPhilip Gerard is the author of seven books, eleven documentary scripts, and numerous short stories and essays. He chairs the Department of Creative Writing at UNC Wilmington. For more information about Philip, please visit his website.
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Commentator Philip Gerard is a firmly established man of letters, which may explain why it took him a bit longer than others to learn how to count. In… -
As a budding journalist with his first front-page byline, Commentator Philip Gerard was understandably smug. The piece he'd written, on a young man who… -
In this classic commentary, Philip Gerard challenges us to listen harder. Behind, between, and always present in his father's war stories was some element… -
From a young age, Commentator Philip Gerard knew the difference between right and wrong. But in a noisy midway at the state fair, he had to make the… -
Pushing through a blizzard in the nerve-wracking company of big rigs one winter night, Commentator Philip Gerard feared he would not make it off of I-80… -
Author and creative writing professor Philip Gerard is more likely to need a pen than a hammer in his day-to-day life. But every now and then, he gets the… -
Five-year-old Philip Gerard had little to look forward to on his annual back-to-school trip to the mall. As usual, he would be purchased one new pair of… -
Road trips always seem to be filled with unexpected mishaps. On a cross-country trip home for the holidays, Philip Gerard finds himself hopelessly stalled… -
As the deciding vote in a teacher's strike, Philip Gerard must choose with whom he sides--his fellow employees or the children whose needs they serve.… -
Visiting his grandfather as a child, Commentator Philip Gerard found the boat eternally docked to a neighbor's back porch laughable. However, when the…
