Author Description

Certain of the short stories in this collection, 'Higher Education,' take place at Harvard University, where the author was a graduate student and was living nearby in Cambridge, while the setting of others is elsewhere in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and in Maine. Even before graduating, the author began taking trips to overseas destinations in Europe and to Turkey, which serve as the background for a few more; and then, upon completion of requirements for his Doctorate degree, he was hired by a publishing firm in Atlanta, which sent him to their branch office in Tokyo, and the characters in some of these stories follow him there.