The Outcasts
Bill Bucko studied philosophy at Purdue University, and has been a Montessori teacher and computer analyst.  His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in "The Atlantean Press Review" and "The Intellectual Activist."  His books include: "The Mysterious Valley," by Maurice Champagne (as translator),  The Atlantean Press, 1994 "Ayn Rand’s French Children’s Magazines: The Early Inspiration of a Great Novelist,"  The Ayn Rand Institute Press, 2009 (limited edition) and three novels set in the early Italian Renaissance: "Bring Me Giants!,"  the story of an atheist scholar at the court of the first Renaissance pope in 1451 "The Outcasts,"  a free-thinking boy’s rebellious quest for truth in 1400s Florence, at the dawn of the Renaissance "Raphaella di Piero,"  the harrowing drama of a girl whose father murdered her mother … and the boy who loves her