Phippen, Sanford (1942 - )

Genre: General Fiction, Non-Fiction, Short Stories

Sandy Phippen grew up in Hancock Point, graduated from the University of Maine in 1964, received a Master's degree from Syracuse University, and taught English in the public schools of central New York for fifteen years before returning to Maine. Phippen has taught English at Orono High School and is an essayist and a writer of fiction.

Selected Bibliography

  • A History of The Town of Hancock (1978)
  • Cheap Gossip: The Letters from Liverpool (1989)
  • The Police Know Everything (1982)
  • People Trying to be Good (1996)
  • The Messiah in the Memorial Gym and Other Writings 1973-1998 (1998)
  • Standing Just Outside the Door (2002)
  • The Best Maine Stories: The Marvelous Mystery (1986 editor, with Charles Waugh and Martin Harry Greenberg)
  • High Clouds Soaring, Storms Driving Low: The Letters of Ruth Moore (1993)