The Saga of San Francisco's Wild Western Addition and Me
The author was born in Kansas City, Kansas on January 1, 1943.  Education at the University of Kansas includes a B.A in Zoology, three years of medical school, and a M.A. in Art History.  He presently owns his own real estate firm in San Francisco, His corporation  was established in 1976 and has had as many as five associates. The author has been intensively involved in the social fabric, politics, commerce, cultural institutions, and neighborhood organizations in San Francisco. Although he started writing forty years ago, he spend these years mostly practicing real estate, observing, reading, traveling, and volunteering to amass the great amount of information offered in this book.    This book was precipitated by the murder of Oscar Grant III in the Fruitvale Bay Area Rapid Transit Station on January 1, 2009. His paternal grandmother had been a tenant in a building that I owned with partners in the Western Addition. My accumulated stories needed now to be told in writing, with a certain urgency!