BENNINGTON BANNER: Debut novelist returns to Madison
Read the Bennington Banner article that showcases J. T. Maxwell and his debut novel, Red Brick Road.
Author J. T. Maxwell (left) sits with Phil Lewis of the Bennington Bookshop at Madison Brewing Company Pub and Restaurant in Bennington for a book signing and an excerpt reading of his novel, "Red Brick Road."
Mark Rondeau, Bennington Banner
BENNINGTON — J. T. Maxwell started writing his debut novel, "Red Brick Road," when his son was born in 2007. When he would get up to feed the baby at 2:30 a.m., he couldn’t get back to sleep.
“So, I'd be up and I just started clacking away,” he said. "And I realized early on that my characters needed a solid setting, they needed something to ground them.”
Maxwell first became familiar with Bennington as manager of an Enterprise Rental branch in Brattleboro.
“I would very often have to come over here to Bennington for meetings, or I'd have to bring a car over, so I got familiar with Bennington. And I thought, that might do it. That might work,” he said.
