We All Hear Voices

     Sam is a family doctor, raised in

the Mississippi River Delta in the

 small town of Augusta, Arkansas.

His father was a rice

farmer/philosopher and his mother

the ultimate caregiver.

He worked his way

through college at Arkansas State

University in Jonesboro and then

attended medical school at the

University of Arkansas Medical

School in Little Rock. After

obtaining a medical degree he

completed a Family Practice

Residency and then spent two years

in the army. After the service he

returned to Arkansas to practice

medicine and has lived in Benton

and Hot Springs for the last thirty

years. He is the senior partner and

founder of an eight physician group.

            He is married to Dr. Annette

Enderlin, an ophthalmologist, and

has two adult sons.

            Sam and Annette are avid

outdoorsmen focused primarily on

traveling, camping, canoeing, small

stream fishing, long distance

running and biking. He has run

ninety-five marathons in the last

eighteen years.

            At age seventeen he began

writing and over the years has

accumulated boxes of journals,

poems and incomplete stories. In

the early eighties he created the

small Delta town of Gum Ridge and

wrote a series of short stories about

the community. In one of those

stories a short-order cook who hears

voices made a brief appearance. In

an attempt to recreate the cook’s

life, the story We All Hear Voices

came into being.

            Having been raised in rural

Arkansas most of his attempts at

fiction are founded on that base. His

southern sensibility has been

particularly influenced by the

writings of the Southern U.S. writers

and the South American magical

realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez,

Isabel Allende, Jorge Amado and

Borges.

     He has completed three other

novel length stories and is currently

working on a fourth.