Burned out medical equipment salesman who turned back to writing in order to finally justify his English major of many years before. A native of upstate New York. Lived in NY City area and Connecticut. Emigrated across the Mason-Dixon to Virginia in 1988. BA from Williams College where he co-captained the basketball team and his only other noteworthy accomplishment was meeting his wife of going on twenty seven years. They have five children, ages twenty one down to four.