John H. Ritter

Quick Facts

Full Name	John H. Ritter
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Oct 31, 1951(1951-10-31)
Age	73
Birthplace	California
Country	United States
Horoscope	Scorpio

John H. Ritter Biography

John H. Ritter is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on October 31, 1951 in California, United States.

Choosing Up Sides is set in southern Ohio in the 1920s. The novel’s protagonist, 13-year-old Luke Bledsoe, is the oldest child of a preacher. Born left-handed, Luke is, in the eyes of his fundamentalist father, Ezekiel, a heathen and potential follower of Satan, for he believes the left hand is the hand of the devil. The authoritarian Ezekiel tries to “cure” Luke of his left- handedness, but with little luck. When Ezekiel becomes minister of the Holy River of John the Baptist Church in Crown Falls, Ohio, Luke inadvertently becomes involved with the local baseball team, which won the county championship the previous year and hopes to repeat their success. Unfortunately, in addition to viewing left-handedness as a conscious choice, “Pure backwards of what’s right and good,” Ezekiel also views baseball as a temptation that needs to be resisted, so Luke must practice pitching in secret, by throwing rocks and may apples in the woods. Early on, while Luke is watching a forbidden game, a ball lands at his feet. Throwing it back with his left hand, he amazes the crowd with both distance and placement. The ballplayers and his uncle, Micah, a sports editor for a northern Ohio newspaper, set about convincing Luke that wasting a talent such as his is the actual sin. When Luke decides to pitch for the team, a confrontation with his father ends in a violent beating, which later leads directly to the death of the father, when a crippled Luke is unable to save the man from drowning.

Born in San Pedro, California, on October 31, 1951, novelist John H. Ritter grew up in the rural hills of eastern San Diego County. His father, Carl W. Ritter, was a sports writer, and later financial editor, for The San Diego Union newspaper. Ritter’s mother, Clara, died of breast cancer, when he was four years old. Ritter recalls, “One thing I remember about my mom is that she sang to us constantly, making up a song for each of her four children that fit our personalities perfectly. So from her, I got a sense of how to capture a person’s spirit in a lyrical phrase.”

John H. Ritter Net Worth

John H. Ritter is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John H. Ritter 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ritter’s fifth novel, The Desperado Who Stole Baseball, set in the Wild West of the 1880s and written in the manner of a tall tale mixed with Mexican style magical realism, is a prequel to The Boy Who Saved Baseball and Book One of the Dillontown Trilogy. On his way from St. Louis to Dillontown to find his long-lost uncle, the playing-manager of a championship baseball team, twelve- year-old Jack Dillon meets Billy the Kid, who is looking for a fresh start in California. Upon his arrival, Jack learns that the Dillontown Nine have scheduled a game against the powerful Chicago White Stockings, with the town’s fortune hanging in the balance. Again, Ritter’s voice caused critics to react. In the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, Elizabeth Bush described Ritter’s authorial voice as having “all the charm of a well-spun tall tale with plenty of Twainian malarkey.” Marilyn Taniguchi asserted in School Library Journal that “Ritter writes in an idiom-laden, mock-epic style full of bombast and bravado…Reminiscent of Sid Fleischman.”

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In the wake of Over the Wall, with its strong anti-war theme, Ritter viewed America’s response to the 9/11/2001 events with increasing dismay. Writing in the September 2002 volume of the California English Journal, Ritter stated, “The strain of this past year has been tough on me. After witnessing for days the grand, immediate outpouring of selflessness, generosity, and sacrifice in lower Manhattan—the ‘small friendly town of New York City’ that I celebrated in my recent novel, Over the Wall—I now sit in a blue funk, disappointed in our nation’s response and the public outcry for further military retaliation. Discouraged might be a better word. I mean, why do I even bother to write books about empathy and reaching out to others, why do our teachers bother to offer lessons on the same thing, when in crisis, we hunker in survivor mode under a blanket of ethnocentrism, fear, and nationalistic fervor? Seems to me that these were the precise sentiments that drove the hijackers.”

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Once again heralding Ritter’s authorial voice, a starred review in Publishers Weekly said the book’s prose was “Enthralling…at times stunning,” and that, “Ritter delivers a baseball tale of legendary dimension, featuring several larger-than-life characters.” Writing in the Summer 2003 edition of The ALAN Review, editor Pamela Sissi Carroll noted, “This uplifting novel is a joy to read and to carry in the mind. Like Ritter’s previous novels…[he] addresses the realities that trouble today’s teens and the forces that shape and reshape local and national cultures. Yet John H. Ritter’s game is unfailingly hopeful and encouragingly positive.” Blair Christolon observed in School Library Journal that the work “is peppered with both optimism and dilemmas; it has plenty of play-by-play action, lots of humor, and a triumphant ending.”