Background includes attendance at eight colleges and universities, working forty-six jobs, and being a spectacular failure at relationships until marriage number three at age fifty-two.
Major influences include authors such as Dickens, Tennyson, Poe, T.S. Eliot, Tolkien and Ernest Hemingway. Favorite modern authors include Stephen R. Donaldson, Piers Anthony, John D. MacDonald and Robert B. Parker. Most influential novels include The Magus and The Affirmation. Writing has been central since composing a poem at age nine. I hate math. more...
