I was born in 1937, attended high school in Memphis, TN, and graduated with a degree in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin in 1959. I moved to Southern California and spent 27 years in the newspaper business there, moving to Las Vegas in 1986 where I rounded out my career with a 17-year stint on that city's two newspapers on the business management side of the industry. I retired in 2002 and moved to Reno, Nevada with my wife in 2006, where I currently live. I have seven books published, and another coming out next April. I have also written dozens of essays and articles on history and biography for magazines and journals.