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Gemwise
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Author . Graduate Gemologist . Goldsmith . Community Organizer.
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My latest, The Dawning: 31,000 BC.. A prehistoric novel set amid the painted caves of Southern France.
"Fans of suspense fiction with a social conscience will be pleased." -Publishers Weekly

Boston: 1974. Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood under siege. Someone is systematically torching abandoned buildings, and the disfigured body has been dug from the ashes.
July 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
New evidence: humans and Neanderthals interacted in Israel earthsky.org/human-world/...
New evidence: humans and Neanderthals interacted in Israel
earthsky.org
March 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I completely forgot about this interview. Joshua Rosen interviewed me a year ago about my work, organizing against redlining in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood in Boston in the mid 1970s.
themetropole.blog/2024/10/08/m...
My Street Looks Different Now: Oral History and the Anti-Redlining Movement
This piece is an entry in our Eighth Annual Graduate Student Blogging Contest, “Connections.” by Joshua Rosen In 1974, when Richard Wise was hired as a community organizer in Boston’s Ja…
themetropole.blog
January 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The Dawning: 31,000 BC by Richard W. Wise
January 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
My latest, The Dawning: 31,000 BC.. A prehistoric novel set amid the painted caves of Southern France.
December 21, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Greetings all! I look forward to interacting with writers on Bluesky.
November 28, 2024 at 12:40 AM