Stephen Kellogg Brooks was born in Weymouth Mass. The third child of John and Elizabeth Brooks. He spent his childhood in Boston, spent his adolescence in Westboro Mass, and spent his young adulthood in Worcester, Hopedale, and Framingham Mass. He graduated from Westboro High School and later on from Framingham State College. He spent a portion of his working career as an employee of General Motors in Framingham Mass. He is currently retired and living in South Florida.He is an Amateur Cryptographer and Amateur Linguist and registered as such with the professional organization known as the Linguist List . He specializes in Controversial Knowledge. His only book is published under several different titles. The reason for this is that the data covers so many different areas, that it became necessary to give as much recognition as possible,to several different areas in his book: "The Vatican Ciphers",and "THE ACTUAL NAMING of the John F. Kennedy Assassins"Stephen Kellogg Brooks has the following discoveries to his credit: Earthshaking proof that the alphabet is indeed HIEROGLYPHIC. Proof that names have many secret meanings. Proof that there was a conspiracy to assassinate JFK. And proof that the detail in the New Testament was invented from names, using a clever technique called "The Rootword Technique".