After long stints with IBM and Westinghouse, Richard J. Noyes was Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Engineering Study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Noyes is now a business consultant for public and private sector organizations.Author, "Discovering Will's Lost Years and the Marlowe-Shakespeare Lost Play: Uncovering 16th and 21st-Century Mystery, Treachery and Obsession." An original work of fiction that relates how two young, contemporary Elizabethan scholars learn about the play, and while enduring the risks of searching for it they undertake the recreation of Shakespeare's lost years.Author, "WWII Soldier Flier Prisoner Partisan: Missing in Action and Presumed Dead." Two Americans, an infantryman and a pilot, face hellish action fighting Nazis across North Africa and Europe and find deep love with two battlefield nurses. You will feel the torment of combat, the misery of capture and the riveting suspense of guerilla incursions as the Americans join with Polish partisans to battle the Nazis. By Richard Noyes and co-author Pamela J. Robertson: "Larceny of Love," a contemporary novel of action, love, danger and emotion. Trace the interwoven careers of three men in jeopardy and the accomplished women in their lives, plus compelling inside looks at cutthroat technology, big-time sports and Machiavellian Hollywood deals.Also by Noyes and Robertson: "Guts in the Clutch: 77 Legendary Triumphs, Heartbreaks and Wild Finishes in 12 Sports," with a Foreword by Drew Olson of ESPN and Past President of the Baseball Writers Association of America.By Richard J. Noyes, "Charles Dickens' American Reading Tour of 1867-1868," a concise look at Dickens' acclaimed tour of cities such as Boston, New York and Washington, D.C. He renewed friendships with Longfellow, Holmes and Emerson and received an out-of-step critique by Mark Twain. Readers will find anecdotes of Dickens in America to be illuminating, often amusing and occasionally touching.