I grew up south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, graduated from Lehigh University, then went into the Air Force and was a fighter pilot. When I was in sixth grade, my teacher had us write a page about our summer vacation. We turned them in, and she called me up to her desk to tell me I was a good writer. That made a lasting impression on me. I wrote a couple of plays in my twenties that were produced at a local college. I also wrote a screenplay that was shown on a local cable television station in Oklahoma. My other early writings were marketing and training materials for various companies I worked for.

I started writing The Wind: The Story of Arnald in 2010 and published it in 2020. The real Arnald and I collaborated on the story which is based on his life. At one point, he told me I knew more about him than anyone else in the world. It was an honor for me. He ironically died on December 7, 2016, before the book was finished. I put it on the shelf, but wanted to complete it for him, so began finishing it a year later and published it.

Many people who read The Wind wanted to know what happened to Arnald after the war, so I wrote The Rain: The Story of Horst which is a separate story on its own. It is set in post-World War II Germany, and lets the reader know what happened to Arnald while Horst struggles during the reconstruction and near famine of the country. Horst gets involved with a beautiful woman who works for the communist party in Germany and leads him into a troubled existence.

My latest book is The Club: The Story of Ray, published in October 2024, which is set in America, in current times. Ray is a sheltered young man who learns the hard way about the real world. Ray hopes to have an interesting career after leaving the Air Force, but gets caught up in a terrorist plot that succeeds. There’s romance, betrayal, and survival elements in the story.

When writing this bio, I realized that I am obsessed with the oppressed. There are many more stories to tell, so I will tell some.

Thank you for reading my biography. I hope you enjoy my books.

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