Hello!
DanV is using DISQUS to manage comments posted on thousands of sites all around the web.
Learn more or Sign up to create your own commenter profile.
loc
San Franciscoweb
bio
Daniel F. Vojir – BiographyBorn in Chicago, Illinois in 1947, Dan Vojir bolstered his education early with, of all things, the piano: while he was attending a Catholic grammar school in Berwyn (a near suburb), he was also attending the American Conservatory of Music and was taught by the legendary Bruno Glade (a performer with Barbarolli in the London Symphony).
Dan loved music, art, geography and, especially, history. He graduated cum laude from Fenwick High School, a college preparatory school. He then studied at University of Illinois, Roosevelt University and Northern Illinois University where he graduated with a B.S.E. in Speech and Music education.
He taught for several years at the high school level in Rockford, Illinois, then Ottawa, Illinois. His school productions of musicals garnered praise from the arts media throughout the region.
After arriving in San Francisco in 1974, Dan embarked on a career in books, working for the local B. Dalton and eventually writing his own book and short stories. His love of books carried him into the world of publishing and he worked for college textbook firms as well as Bay Area publishers. He starting publicizing books and authors in the early ‘80s and went on to host his own syndicated radio show on Talk America Radio Networks. During the course of the show, Dan interviewed such luminaries as Steve Allen, William F. Buckley, Allen Ginsberg, Betty White, Judy Blume, Helen Gurley Brown, Patricia Nell Warren and Bishop John Shelby Spong.
Dan now lives in the Ingleside District of San Francisco with his companion theater director Mike Ward and their two cats, Katie Scarlett and Chloe Anastasia.
