Retired SEMO professor Robert Hamblin writes novel centered on gay rights
Tuesday, October 9, 2018 ~ Updated 10:57 PM
After writing 33 books on subjects as varied as William Faulkner, coach Ron Shumate at Southeast Missouri State University, and baseball, Bob Hamblin has authored a novel, “Leaving Here,” about a depressed lawyer drawn into the fight for gay rights in small-town Missouri in the early 1990s.
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