The author served in the US Marine Corps as a rifleman and earned degrees in literature from the University of California, Davis and Brown University when he returned from Vietnam. His combat experiences and six months in hospitals recovering from wounds were the basis of his Master’s thesis (and first novel, unpublished) from the Brown University Writing Program.

    The author’s career has been varied, having served as a university publications editor, researcher, publicist, high school English teacher, corporate scribe and program administrator, and finally a successful consultant and owner of an information technology staffing augmentation business. In 2010 he retired from business and began focusing on his new role as war historian and researcher. His research has taken him to far corners of Australia and New Zealand, and more recently, nearly three months in France.

    In 1943 his father served as an infantryman during the invasion of Attu Island in the Aleutians. It was the basis of the history of this bloody but obscure campaign that compelled the author to write his first historical novel, FIRST AMONG MEN, published by Pocol Press in May, 2013.

    In August, 2015 a second Pacific war novel called INTO THE WET was published by Black Rose Writing. This book was re-released in a second edition by Pocol Press in September, 2017.

    In May, 2019 Pocol Press will release his third novel, HUNT OF THE KITE, a historical thriller based in France during the 1940-1944 war years.