Richard LeMieux
Author of Breakfast at Sally’s

Richard was born in Urbana, Ohio, and attended Urbana College and Ohio State University. He was Sports Director of WCOM Radio, and a sportswriter for 17 years at the Springfield Sun (Ohio) newspaper. As a columnist, he was known as “the wizard” for his uncanny knack of predicting the outcomes of football and basketball games.

Richard has lived in Washington State since 1981.  He ran his own publishing company, producing medical directories and university student directories for 14 years.  When his business failed, he lost his livelihood, his home, his possessions, and his wife of 17 years.

Richard was homeless in Bremerton, Washington, with his dog, Willow, for a year and a half. He lived in his minivan while writing Breakfast at Sally’s with a second-hand manual typewriter at picnic tables in parks around the city. While he was homeless, Richard and the other homeless people he portrays in his book regularly visited Sally’s, the soup kitchen at The Salvation Army in Bremerton.

Today, Richard enjoys taking Willow for long walks in the park, and he is working on his second book, the story of a woman he met on his journey through homelessness.