v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} Normal 0 false false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} I was born in 1960 in London, England, studied English Literature at Cambridge , and left England in 1981 to move to the United States. With an MBA from the University of Chicago, I spent the next fifteen years raising my family and pursuing a career in business, founding an online financial services company called NextCard. Requiem of the Human Soul is my first novel.  I wanted to write about where I saw our world going, and what it means for our human soul.  Not the Judaeo-Christian immortal soul, but the kind we mean when we say: "___'s got soul, man."  How genetic engineering may put the final nail in the coffin that Western civilization's been building around our soul for the past 500 years. I tried to make the story believable - not some angst-ridden dystopia, but a realistic view of our future may hold for our species.

Founded Internet company, NextCard
BA, MA, English Literature, Cambridge University
MBA, University of Chicago