Jody Rawley was born in North Carolina and raised in Richmond, Virginia. He studied political science in college, holds degrees in Philosophy, Communications, and Divinity, read British Literature in an American summer studies program at Oxford (St. John's College), traveled in his twenties, worked for newspapers, radio, and television stations, and reads when he is not writing.
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The origin of the URL:
"Dartans" is Gaeilge (Irish) for "a place where cows or herds graze." Two generations off the boat, in the Valerie Mayton home, it came to mean a family business. They spelled it the way they heard it, then made the internet search and discovered that it is likely we have a sniglet, a family neologism.