An Army veteran, he has written for a local newspaper as well as authored A Bibliographical Introduction to Seventy-five Modern American Authors, a research study on modern American first edition fiction and poetry that can be found in most libraries. He is an avid baseball fan and fantasy baseball league commissioner and nine-time winner of the Walnut Creek Bush (fantasy baseball) League. Lepper is a collector of first edition novels, comic books and baseball cards among other ephemera. He is married with two daughters, three granddaughters and, at last, one grandson, as well as the devoted owner of “Frodo,” a half maltese, half shih tzu attack dog.