Robin Cody was born at St. Helens in 1943 and grew up in Estacada, Oregon. A graduate of Yale, he taught at the American School of Paris for a decade and was Dean of Admissions at Reed College in Portland. While writing, he has been a baseball umpire, a basketball referee, and a special ed shool bus driver.His "Ricochet River," a novel, and "Voyage of a Summer Sun," nonfiction, were first published by Alfred A. Knopf. Both are in the Oregon State Library's "150 Books for the Oregon Sesquicentennial," 2009."Another Way the River Has," 2010, is a collection of short true stories published by Oregon State University Press.Cody lives with his wife, Donna, in Portland