Eric Goodman is a novelist, journalist and book doctor. For many years, he directed the creative writing program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he founded the Low-Residency MFA in 2015. Most summers he teaches fiction and humor writing at the Iowa Summer Writers Festival in Iowa City. He works with a limited number of private writing students who seek guidance in finishing and polishing a novel manuscript.
During his notorious Los Angeles years, Eric wrote episodic television scripts and feature-length screenplays. Other significant publications include a handful of short stories and more than 150 non-fiction pieces in national publications including Travel & Leisure, Saveur, Travel & Leisure Golf, GQ, Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Glamour, and Life.
He lives with his wife in Sonoma County and the Finger Lakes region of New York, delighting in the natural beauty and fine wines of both regions.
Eric Goodman is a graduate of both Yale and Stanford University.
During his notorious Los Angeles years, Eric wrote episodic television scripts and feature-length screenplays. Other significant publications include a handful of short stories and more than 150 non-fiction pieces in national publications including Travel & Leisure, Saveur, Travel & Leisure Golf, GQ, Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Glamour, and Life.
He lives with his wife in Sonoma County and the Finger Lakes region of New York, delighting in the natural beauty and fine wines of both regions.
Eric Goodman is a graduate of both Yale and Stanford University.
Eric’s sixth novel, Cuppy and Stew: The Bombing of Flight 629, A Love Story, was published in May, 2020 by IFSF Publishing. Part historical novel, part memoir, Cuppy and Stew tells one family’s story before and after a bomb killed everyone on United Flight 629 in November, 1955, the first instance of American air piracy. Cuppy and Stew is Eric’s most personal novel. His wife’s parents perished on Flight 629.
To request an autographed copy email Eric directly at goodmaek@miamioh.edu
To request an autographed copy email Eric directly at goodmaek@miamioh.edu
Sherry and I knew nothing. It was 1955, and we knew nothing. We’d been living in Winnetka for four months. Daddy had been working at his new engineering firm for those same four months. On the night of November 1st, which I’d later learn was known as the Day of the Dead, and think, of course it is, Sherry and I were sleeping when the phone rang, or maybe a policeman came to our door."
- Cuppy & Stew by Eric Goodman
Reviews for Cuppy & Stew
"Cuppy and Stew is completely natural, poignant, and riveting from the first page to the last. An easy read in the best sense of that phrase, and a major work of fiction."
- Ron Hansen, author of Atticus and A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion
“Eric Goodman’s Cuppy & Stew: The Bombing of Flight 629, A Love Story reads like a fairy tale—until some pretty remarkable darkness sets in, as the title tells us it will. Part novel, part memoir (the author writes in the voice of his wife), part journalistic inquiry, the dark forests of this tale lead down to the far more treacherous and psychological underworld of the hero’s journey—and a gritty, hard-earned climb back to the light. A most compelling read.”
- Sands Hall, author of Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology
"The grim tragedy of the first US terrorist bombing in 1955 that killed the narrator’s parents hovers over this powerful story. Readers are given the complicated love story of the two who die on United Flight 629 and the moving struggle of the daughters who are orphaned by the tragedy: “It was me and my sissy against the world.” Cuppy and Stew brilliantly blends the known and the imagined and will stand as a model for new possibilities in historical fiction."
- Jim Heynen, author of The One-Room Schoolhouse and Ordinary Sins
"Cuppy and Stew is completely natural, poignant, and riveting from the first page to the last. An easy read in the best sense of that phrase, and a major work of fiction."
- Ron Hansen, author of Atticus and A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion
“Eric Goodman’s Cuppy & Stew: The Bombing of Flight 629, A Love Story reads like a fairy tale—until some pretty remarkable darkness sets in, as the title tells us it will. Part novel, part memoir (the author writes in the voice of his wife), part journalistic inquiry, the dark forests of this tale lead down to the far more treacherous and psychological underworld of the hero’s journey—and a gritty, hard-earned climb back to the light. A most compelling read.”
- Sands Hall, author of Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology
"The grim tragedy of the first US terrorist bombing in 1955 that killed the narrator’s parents hovers over this powerful story. Readers are given the complicated love story of the two who die on United Flight 629 and the moving struggle of the daughters who are orphaned by the tragedy: “It was me and my sissy against the world.” Cuppy and Stew brilliantly blends the known and the imagined and will stand as a model for new possibilities in historical fiction."
- Jim Heynen, author of The One-Room Schoolhouse and Ordinary Sins