Ron Friedman (1951-) was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a husband, father, and grandfather. He lives in Pepper Pike, Ohio with his wife and dog, and spends vacations visiting his children in Ohio, Boulder, CO, and Chicago. He has lived in New York City, Wilmington, Ohio, and in Chinle, Arizona on the Navajo Indian reservation. He has worked as a a truck driver, waiter,warehouseman, fork-lift operator, laborer on the county road crew, advertising copywriter, and a sheep-herder. He is an inventor,lighting designer, amateur photographer,and the principal of Art & Science Lighting Design, a Cleveland, Ohio consulting firm. Night Shines as Day is his first novel.