Under the Table Books

Haven to a goodly gang of social outcasts, visionaries, and highly original artists, Under the Table Books is both community center and grand experiment in pragmatic mysticism. The cast includes poets, musicians, master chefs, a ten-year-old genius, a former movie star, eighty-eight-year-old identical twins, and a homeless savant who may have once been the richest man on earth.

TODD WALTON was born in San Francisco. His fiction began appearing in national magazines in 1975 with the publication of Willow in Cosmopolitan. In 1978, Todd published his critically acclaimed novel Inside Moves, which sold over 160,000 copies and was made into an Academy Award-nominated film. His second novel, Forgotten Impulses (Simon and Schuster, 1980) was chosen by the New York Times as one of the best of that year. Louie & Women was published by Dutton in 1983, and Night Train by Mercury House in 1986. Todd's fifth novel, Ruby & Spear, was published by Bantam in 1996. In 1998, Avon published his first nonfiction work, Open Body: Creating Your Own Yoga. Of Water and Melons was published by Red Wing Press in 1999, and in May 2000, Ten Speed Press published The Writer's Path, Todd's book of original writing exercises, co-authored with Mindy Toomay.