The Work of My Father

Taking a deep dive into the 1,000,000+ words he left behind

Oliver Thomas “Tom” Bateman, WVU Mountaineers, 1959

In the years leading up to my father’s death in November 2014, he derived considerable satisfaction from following my writing career. As a man who spent decades "selling himself," he enjoyed when I would savage a former or current employer as a way of drawing attention to myself and my writing services.…