I was born in 1935, in Albertville, Alabama.
My dad was a career serviceman and during World War II my
childhood was spent with my family moving from one army camp
to another. I attended seventeen schools during my first two
years of primary school. Fortunately, in 1953 I was able to
graduate from my hometown high school, after which I followed
my family to Europe.
After spending a year in Europe, I returned to the U.S. and
volunteered to serve in the army. When I completed basic training
as a medical corpsman, I was sent to Germany where I served
almost two years as an ambulance driver in Munich and Dachau.
Then I was returned to the U.S. and discharged.
In 1956, I entered Abilene Christian College in Abilene, Texas,
and graduated three years later with a BS degree in psychology.
Shortly thereafter, my fiancée, now my wife, and I moved
to Colorado and I entered the University of Colorado at Boulder
to complete an advanced degree in psychology, specializing in rehabilitation
counseling with mentally and physically disabled persons.
In 1961, I was employed by the Colorado State Division of Rehabilitation
as a rehabilitation counselor. During my thirty-two year career
with Rehabilitation I worked in several offices. I advanced through
the ranks from a beginning rehabilitation counselor directly serving
persons with disabilities, to supervisor of staff and, by the time
of my retirement in 1993, to Administrator of several statewide
programs in the Agency.
I began writing my first novel in 1962, and have completed three
novels, four long plays, three one-act plays, and one teleplay.
I’ve recently finished the first draft of my fourth novel.
Three literary agents, including one from the William Morris Agency
in New York, have submitted Saratogan Trees to publishers,
as well as reviewing some of my other works. To date, however, Saratogan
Trees is the only one to be published. The comments I received
from several senior editors, particularly on Saratogan Trees,
have motivated me to persist in my writing.
