Clark M. Zlotchew was born in Jersey City, N.J. (1932),and grew up in the Bronx and in Jersey City. He and his wife Marilyn live in rural Chautauqua County in Western New York State. Honored in 2008 with a promotion to the rank of SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Spanish Language and Spanish and Latin American Literatures, Dr. Zlotchew has had a highly diverse set of careers. He joined the U.S. Naval Reserve at age 17 as Apprentice Seaman, and received an Honorable Discharge as Chief Petty Officer at age 36. He was sales/production liaison for the export Dept. of a large liquor manufacturer in New York, and was Coordinator of an educational program for Spanish-speaking seasonal workers in rural N.Y.State. He taught Spanish in high school in New Jersey, and at several universities in the states of Vermont and New York. He earned the Ph.D. in Romance Languages & Literatures from SUNY Binghamton. SHORT FICTION: Zlotchew's short stories have been published in his Spanish and English versions in the U.S. and Latin America. One story, in both the English and Spanish versions, has been published on the Internet. One of his stories was translated from his Spanish version into Italian and published in a Milan magazine.BOOKS: He has had 17 books published, including translations from Spanish of short stories and poetry by Nobel Laureates, interviews with Borges and 10 other Latin-American writers,literary criticism of Spanish and Latin-American authors and books teaching Spanish at various levels. In 2001 a military/action novel of his, under a pseudonym, was published. In 2010 two more books of his fiction appeared: a collection of short stories and an espionage/thriller.LITERARY AWARD: ONCE UPON A DECADE: TALES OF THE FIFTIES was a FINALIST in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2011. (Indie = Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group) Dinner and medal for Finalists at the Plaza Hotel, NYC, May 24, 2011, and book listed in the Book Expo America 2011 Catalog. NOTES ON PHOTOS One of the five pictures in black & white are of C. Zlotchew plays guitar with Havana street musicians in 1958, C. Zlotchew with B. Schraer in Savannah, 1956, C. Zlotchew & father, Harry, taken in 1959, another black & white photo is of C. Zlotchew taken in 1951, and the black & white photo of C. Zlotchew as Chief Petty Officer of the U.S. Naval Reserves, 1966. These refer to ONCE UPON A DECADE: TALES OF THE FIFTIES.Photo of two seated men wearing suits are of Jorge Luis Borges & Clark Zlotchew in 1985. This refers to the book VOICES OF THE RIVER PLATE: INTERVIEWS WITH ARGENTINE AND URUGUAYAN WRITERS, as well as to VARIETIES OF MAGIC REALISM.