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Amos Darryl Wimberley is an American writer who was born on December 19, 1949 in St. Augustine, Florida. Having completed his secondary education at Lafayette County High School, Mayo, Florida, he entered the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in International Affairs. While still on active duty he completed graduate work at St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas, and was awarded a Master of Arts in English Literature.

Upon separation from military service he entered the Graduate School of the University of Texas at Austin where he completed a Doctorate of Philosophy from the Radio-Television-Film department. He was hired as Assistant Regional Manager for a four-state region of cable television systems owned by Communications Properties, Inc., of the Times-Mirror Corporation.

He returned to Austin to write. Darryl has four novels with St. Martin's Press in the Barrett Raines mystery series: A Rock and a Hard Place (1999), Dead Man's Bay (2000), Strawman's Hammock (2001) and Pepperfish Keys (2007). A separate, literary work, A Tinker's Damn, was published in 2000 by MacMurray and Beck; another literary novel, The King of Colored Town, was published in 2007 by The Toby Press. His script Kaleidoscope was Grand Prize Winner for Fade In: Magazine's 1998 competition.

Darryl writes and teaches Introduction to Literature full-time at the United States Air Force Academy. He is married to Doris Constantine, Director of Financial Aid at St. Edward's University in Austin. Darryl and Doris have two children.

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