Philosopher’s Stone

Author/psychiatrist Joseph Hullett is an award-winning playwright whose work has been staged from New York to Los Angeles. His first play, The Pledge, won the prestigious Julie Harris Award. Subsequent works have earned (among others) the Ventana Play Award, Silver Medal in the Pinter Review Prize, and finalist selection for both the Arts and Letters Drama Prize and the Heideman Award. Killing Rain, Killing Fire - Hullett’s first novel - celebrated his life-long love of the quintessential American tough-guy - the private detective. A sequel, Philosopher’s Stone, explores an older and wiser tough-guy torn between Justice and Mercy. Drawing on people and experiences from his stint in the Marine Corps, Hullett’s third novel, Another Time, depicts a Vietnam vet finding refuge as a bartender among the denizens of a small, northern Michigan town. His short stories are collected in two volumes, Men with Women and WayFinder. Hullett spent a free-ranging childhood in Detroit, left college to join the Marine Corps, and returned home to work a year on the Detroit Free Press. Finishing college and then medical school, he completed a surgical internship and a psychiatric residency at UCLA. Subsequently his day jobs have included teacher, researcher, lecturer, husband, father, therapist, and, sometimes, healer; a background that also anchors his fiction. For years, he has lived in southern California near Camp Pendleton ... not Dover Beach, but still within earshot of cannon fire.