The author was born in Louisiana in 1941. He has a B. S. degree from a southern university and a Ph. D. from a midwestern university. He was on the faculty of the psychiatry department of a medical...view moreThe author was born in Louisiana in 1941. He has a B. S. degree from a southern university and a Ph. D. from a midwestern university. He was on the faculty of the psychiatry department of a medical school in Ohio for twenty-seven years; he is now an associate professor emeritus. Magnolia Park: A Comic, Pornographic Novel of Erotic Obsession and Other Horrors in the Deep South is his first published novel.view less