B.A., Dartmouth College; Ph. D., University of Wisconsin. Major: French; minor: German. Thesis: Jean Jacques Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse. Most of his career was spent at California State University, Sacramento. He spent ten years moonlighting as a professional translator of French and Italian.He is currently semi-retired and teaches an on-line course in French for Reading Comprehension and, occasionally, French for Listening Comprehension at the University of Guelph, in Ontario. He is the founder and managing editor of Bewildering Stories.