At the age of twelve, armed with a notebook and ten-dollar Brownie, Richard Menzies began documenting the world around him. In his hometown of Price, Utah, he is remembered as the 98-pound weakling who once got trampled by half the high school football team - just because he wanted to get close to the action. Following graduation from college and rejection by both the Army and the Peace Corps, he worked at a succession of menial jobs before finally selling a paragraph to The Reader's Digest in 1969.
In the years since, he has authored hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles and has exhibited widely. Briefly, he penned a humor column for Good Times!-the in-flight magazine of ValuJet Airlines. Accounts of his misadventures on the road are included in two anthologies: Australia: True Stories of Life Down Under (Travelers¹ Tales) and I Should Have Just Gone Home (RDR Books).
"Richard Menzies is brilliant!" declares Linda Dufurrena, co-author of Fifty Miles From Home. "He seems to have an uncanny way of capturing the true souls of characters that walk to a different beat, and his photographs of those unique individuals are perfectly executed." |
