He Speaks the Language

Larry Jay Martin did a lot of living before settling down and getting serious about his writing career. “I’ve been plane wrecked, car wrecked, boat wrecked, horse and mule wrecked a dozen times or more, and damn near wrecked by everything but a train,” he says. His parents were Oklahomans who moved to California’s Central Valley during the Grapes of Wrath era. “My mom worked in a drugstore and my father worked in the sheds and later became successful in the post-war car biz, until