the poet at 17

A year before "The Unicorns".
A decade before "Horizon".
A score and three years away from "The Panther Cycles"...

Eight books, three children, two wives and a few amazing tales in the past.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you
William Francis DeVault,
Morgantown High School Class of 1973
(cue the trumpets)

I still have the same hairline!

Thanks to my brother, Robert, for providing the scan and crop.