Octogenarian storyteller puts words to paper in novels

John Hodge has always been a storyteller, but it wasn’t until he started trading correspondence with his granddaughter that the idea to write a novel began to formulate.

Now at age 84, Hodge expects by the end of the year to have published his second book. 

“It took me 20 years to write the first book and six months to write the second,” he said. “Once I completed that first story it kept evolving in my head.”