Author: Joe Frank Jones III
Born: 2 August 1949
Died: not yet
Bio: Raised by southern parents on military bases in the Philippines, the southern U.S. and Wiesbaden, Germany, this author was such a bad student he wound up 19 1/2 and 1-A in 1968, got drafted, and spent 21+ months in Southeast Asia (Udorn and Takhli, Thailand, and Danang, Vietnam).  Trying college again, for ten years, he was finally thrown out of Florida State University because there were no more degrees he could get.  Marrying a minister, he went to seminary for a year, then he and his wife both drifted into agnosticism.  He has owned his own business and worked for a large, software sweat-house (BNR), finally winding up teaching philosophy again about 1991.  He now lives in Virginia and hikes to keep himself sane.  He currently, 2013, works as a Professor and Chair of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department at Radford University.  His grasp on reality is tenuous, but he has made progress living successfully with others.