Terry Davis is an American novelist who lives in Minnesota and is currently a professor in the English department at Minnesota State University, Mankato (MSUM), where he teaches Creative writing--fiction and screenwriting--as well as adolescent literature. Davis, who has been a high-school English teacher and a wrestling coach, is the author of three novels for young adults: Vision Quest (1979), Mysterious Ways (1984), and If Rock & Roll Were a Machine (1992). He has also written Presenting Chris Crutcher, a biography of the respected young-adult author.John Irving called Vision Quest "the truest novel about growing up since Catcher in the Rye," and said, "it's a better novel about wrestling, and wrestlers, than The World According to Garp."[cite this quote]Vision Quest was made into a 1985 movie of the same title, starring Matthew Modine and Linda Fiorentino.
Books containing stories by Terry Davis
The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories (2015)
(The Mammoth Book of ...)
edited by
Maxim Jakubowski