![]() Daniel departed from New London, Connecticut, and headed southward to Jamaica, where his father joined him. Hays and his father, David, undertook a 17,000-mile, 317-day ocean voyage that passed around Cape Horn on the twenty-five-foot sailboat Sparrow in 1985, becoming "the first Americans to do so in such a small vessel," according to Booklist reviewer Brad Hooper. SIDELIGHTS: Daniel Hays is "a writer, sometime teacher, sailor/sea captain, tae kwon do black belt, and general misfit," according to Carolyn Alexander, writing in Library Journal. ![]() On Whale Island: Notes from a Place I Never Meant to Leave, Algonquin Books (Chapel Hill, NC), 2002. (With father, David Hays) My Old Man and the Sea: A Father and Son Sail around Cape Horn, Algonquin Books (Chapel Hill, NC), 1995. Wilderness guide and therapeutic supervisor, 1990-95 teacher at Silver Creek Alternative School, Hailey, ID, beginning 1996. ![]() Box 2225, Chapel Hill, NC 27515-2225.ĬAREER: Writer and educator. ![]() Politics: "No." Religion: "Yes." Hobbies and other interests: Tae kwon do, scuba diving, sailing, wilderness survival, "duct tape, and anything I can do passionately."ĪDDRESSES: Agent-c/o Author Mail, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, P.O. PERSONAL: Born January 22, 1960, in New York, NY son of David (a director) and Leonora (a dancer maiden name, Landau) Hays married wife's name Wendy children: Stephan (stepson). ![]()
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