Stephen Elder
Stephen Elder was born in Niles, Michigan in 1940. He majored in German and minored in Russian at Kalamazoo College, and received a Ph.D. in German from the Ohio State University in 1969. He taught at Ohio State, Ohio Dominican College, and the University of Maryland before leaving to start a construction company in 1975. He worked as a framing and finish carpenter, millwork installer, and cabinetmaker before becoming a home inspector in 1984.
He has published several articles in professional journals, and several poems in anthologies. Frank is his first novel. He lives with his wife in the woods of Chatham County, North Carolina.