Cranford Resident and Author John Hartnett Signs at The Town Book Store in Westfield

Meet John Hartnett, author of The Barber's Conundrum and Other Stories, a collection of humor essays that address everyday life including parenting (The School Project: An American Tragedy), relationships (How Bananas Almost Destroyed My Marriage), religion (If We're Late Again for Church, I Will Kill You), the media (There But for the Grace of God Goes the Weather Reporter), animals, specifically geese who tie up traffic by refusing to fly (Behold the Goose), the afterlife (An Unwanted Glimpse of the Afterlife), and other topics readily identifiable and relatable to anyone.

John Hartnett was born in Jersey City, NJ, grew up in Cranford, NJ, and moved to Los Angeles in 1984 after graduating from Emerson College. He has worked in the restaurant, construction, entertainment and publishing industries as well as several others, which thankfully, have been suppressed from memory. He moved back to Cranford in 1997, where his parents still reside, and is married with three children. His first love has always been comedy and his second love is his wife, but sometimes the order is reversed depending on who's in the room with him.  Hartnett is also the author of the humor site, The Monkey Bellhop (http://monkeybellhop.com).

 If you are unable to attend this event, feel free to call The Town Book Store at (908) 233-3535 to reserve an autographed copy of The Barber’s Conundrum and Other Stories.