About
Barney Vincelette
Barney Vincelette, free thinker, agnostic, nudist, iconoclast and author of surrealistic satire, grew up autistic in the 1950's and 1960's and was institutionalized two years because he could not be kept in the school system or at home. He graduated from college and entered the Air Force where he earned a Distinguished Flying Cross and three Air Medals as a C-130 navigator in Vietnam. He worked odd jobs as an aircraft mechanic and air taxi pilot and earned an airline transport pilot license. As a professional graduate student, he completed two MS degrees and a PhD in mathematical physics. His surrealistic paintings almost caused fights where they were displayed and a painting of the Marlboro Cowboy performing oral sex on his horse was banned from several art shows. In his first published novel, The Night of God's Suicide, he challenges hegemony of sports, pop culture, and religious fundamentalism and forces us to ask what makes the god of so many scriptures so evil.