Tillerman Cycle - Recurring Supporting Characters

Recurring Supporting Characters

• Tamer Shipp

Tamer is a main character in The Runner and Come a Stranger. In the first, he is a classmate of Bullet's and runs cross country with him; in the second, it is ten years later and he is a Reverend and father of four.

• Reverend Amos Smiths

Mina's father, Reverend Smiths features in Come a Stranger and Sons from Afar. Although a deeply spiritual and religious man, he does not push religion on his children.

• Mrs Smiths

Mrs Raymonda Smiths appears in Come a Stranger as Mina's tough, caring, intelligent, insightful mother.

• Isaac Lingerle

Mr Lingerle is Maybeth Tillerman's piano teacher. He becomes like an extra member of the Tillerman family. He appears first in Dicey's Song and then in Sons from Afar.

• Professor Horace Greene

The Professor is Jeff's father and a main character in A Solitary Blue. He is an introverted man who is heartbroken over his wife's leaving him when Jeff is seven. As a consequence, the Professor becomes very closed off, even to Jeff.

• Brother Thomas

Brother Thomas is a good friend of Professor Greene's. They meet at the college in Baltimore where they both work.