http://www.robertgpielke.com I wrote my first novel in elementary school -- it was 3 pages long, one paragraph and single spaced. The genre was alternate history! I'm still doing it. I like these guys: Ambrose Bierce, Charles Bukowsiki, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, Robet Heinline, Jack Kerouac, Harlan Ellison, Mark Twain, etc. I used to teach full time; now I write full time. I've got three books under my proverbial belt -- soon to be FIVE! You Say You Want a Revolution: Rock Music in American Culture [Non Fiction] The Mission [SF/Alt Hist - R] Hitler The Cat Goes West [Near Future Satire - NC-17] A New Birth of Freedom: The Visitor [SF/Alt-Hist/Time Travel/First Contact] (Alternate Dimensions Press -- imprint of Cyberwizard Productions) Rock Music in American Culture: You Say You Want a Revolution? (McFarland & Company, Inc.) I was born in Baltimore -- now live in California: Two very different places -- in every sense of the word. Me: Type A -- Anal Retentive -- OCD -- Roue wanna-be I'm now writing SF/Alternate History [aka Speculative Fiction]...exclusively. RE: A New Birth of Freedom: The Visitor [part one of a trilogy] Here's the blurb: "It has taken centuries to recognize that all humans possess certain unalienable rights. There will come a time when we have to consider whether others deserve those rights as well. That time will come on July 3rd, 1863." [Catchy, huh!?]

Major publiction book wise -- You Say You Want a Revolution: Rock Music in American Culture.

My Favorite Short Story by Me: "Good Rockin' Tonight"

Ph.D. [Social Ethics] - Claremont Graduate Univ.
M.Div. [Theological Studies] - Gettysburg
B.A. [History & Political Theory] - Univ. of MD