Janice Harvey: Andrew Noone joins pantheon of local authors with 'Bathsheba Spooner' Janice Harvey Special to Worcester Magazine In my living a room, there’s a shelf devoted to local writers. When I was teaching English I kept this collection on display in my classroom to inspire young authors. Included are the works of Jack O’Connell, Stanley Kunitz, John Dufresne, Kevin Harvey, Elizabeth Bishop, Ray Slater, Paul Della Valle, Joe Fusco, Jr., Robert Benchley — and now, Andrew Noone. I met Andrew Noone in the third grade at Columbus Park elementary school. Instantly I was teased in the schoolyard when little girls recognized that we were both rather skinny and freckle-faced. “Andrew Noone is your boyfriend!” they sang as they danced around me. Andrew Noone never was my boyfriend, and he was not amused, though we were classmates through the 8th grade. Andrew went on to earn graduate degrees in musicology and art history as a Florence Fellow with Syracuse University, and became a music teacher in the Worcester Public Schools. Along the way, he became a historian of note, and a docent with Preservation Worcester. He married and settled into a home that borders Green Hill Park, and it was there that his interest in Bathsheba Spooner was born.