I first met Tim around 7pm on Friday, June 20, 2008, at the Bookwagon bookstore on Ashland Street. I can pinpoint the moment so precisely because Maureen Flannigan Batistella and the Ashland Mystery Reading group organized author readings there and the guest author that day was John Straley, one of my favorite mystery authors at the time.
After the author reading and Q&A were done, and I got to meet John Straley, I asked Maureen about the mystery writing group about which I’d heard rumors. She introduced me to Tim. I asked him if there was a possibility of joining the group. He said, “What have you written?”
Our March guest was Tim Wohlforth. Tim, an Ashland resident, has been writing fiction and nonfiction writer for more than forty years. He has published over seventy short stories and six novels, including the Jim Wolf series. He’s also published a number of non-fiction works, including On The Edge: Political Cults Right and Left and his memoir The Prophet’s Children. Over the past months, Tim has been rewriting his ecothriller Harry as a play. A staged reading of the play was performed at the Ashland library on March 25, 2019.