John A. Broussard was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1924. He received his AB from Harvard in 1949, his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Washington. A college teacher for 20 years, he is now retired. He has, in his words, had "Some success with non-fiction. Several articles published." He is a commercial of books and tapes for AAAS and tells us he has fifty or so short stories and over a dozen novels sitting in his computer awaiting publication.