I grew up in Concord, Massachusetts, attended engineering school at Northeastern, discovered engineering was not for me, left to apprentice with poet, Denise Levertov, became hopelessly infected with the pernicious belief that I could someday be a writer; transferred to Hampshire College where I earned a BA in writing in 1972; drove directly to Maine and started my unplanned 10-year career in commercial fishing—the subject of Door in Dark Water—left Maine in 1982 and began teaching math; later became know-it-all analyst at Forrester Research where I learned how to write on deadline and edit mercilessly; left to run M&A at Bay Networks; took a severance that allowed me to write a scattered first book; needing money, started a company figuring it was the only way I could avoid getting fired; unfortunately discovered that we all could be fired after three years of gut-busting work; sold the remnants for pennies on the dollar; then sat down and wrote this book.

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