Patrick Finegan was born during the latter half of the Eisenhower Administration and graduated during the Carter and Reagan Administrations from Northwestern University and the University of Chicago Law School and Graduate School of Business. He worked more than thirty years in law, corporate finance, management consulting and risk management. He has a wife and grown daughter and has lived in the New York metropolitan area his entire professional life – most of it in the same residential cooperative. Cooperative Lives was Mr. Finegan's first work of fiction. It won more than twenty domestic and international awards, including: Grand Prize Finalist - 2019 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition | Category Winner (Literary Fiction) & Grand Prize Short List - 2019 Millennium Book Award | Category Winner (General Fiction) - 2019-20 Reader Views Literary Awards | Category Winner (Contemporary Fiction) - 2019 Literary Classics International Book Awards | Category Winner (Literary Fiction) - 2020 Independent Press Award | 2020 Jack Eadon Memorial Award for Best Book in Contemporary Drama | 2020 Author Marketing Experts Award for Best Fiction Début | Reviewer's Choice Award - 2019 Feathered Quill Book Awards | Silver Medal, Best First Book - 2020 IPPYs To learn more about the author, check out some of his interviews: Reader Views | Feathered Quill | Shelf Unbound | Literary Titan | DR J Reads | Self-Publishing Review Thank you for visiting this page! Please check out my website - TWOSKATES.COM - or contact me via Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Goodreads. I love to chat.