The author served in the US Marine Corps as a rifleman and earned degrees in literature from the University of California, Davis and Brown University when he returned from Vietnam. His combat experiences and six months in hospitals recovering from wounds were the basis of his Master's Degree thesis from the Brown University Writing Program. A life-long pilot, his flying articles have been published by Plane and Pilot magazine.The author's career has been varied, having served as a university publications editor, researcher, publicist, high school English teacher, corporate scribe and program administrator, and finally a successful consultant and owner of an information technology staffing augmentation business. His first novel, First Among Men, is a fictionalized account of the battle no one ever heard of, remembered and developed because the author listened to his father slowly unravel and dispel his demons releasing bits and pieces of the story over his lifetime. A regular Army infantryman with the US Army's 7th Infantry Division in May of 1943, his father could not forget the horrors of those bloody weeks in the snow and freezing rain. The author decided the story needed to be told. After ten months of meticulous research and another six writing, the story captures a battle that would be characterized later in official Army records as a battle of honor over an island nobody wanted. His latest novel, Into the Wet, moves to the far end of the Southwest Pacific where the Japanese Army is preparing to capture Port Moresby on the southern end of Papau New Guinea in mid-summer 1942. A desperate battle fought with a small group of Australian soldiers in a mix of equatorial coastal jungle right up into some of the triple-canopy rain forests at 8,000 feet. A battle of heroic desperation on both sides, fought entirely in the dark with a nation at stake. Released on August 27, 2015, Into the Wet is available at the publisher, Black Rose Writing and Amazon.