J E TobinJames Tobin lives in Williamsburg, Virginia. As a young man dazzled by the New York skyline, he moved to the city with a journalism degree and dreams of becoming a writer. After writing two off-Broadway plays presented by the Circle Repertory Companyand children's books for MacMillan, he watched from a rowboat as his first novel burned in a New Hampshire hotel fire Three charred pages of the manuscript were recovered. A dream had turned into a nightmare. James' writing shifted to textbooks and scholarly articles as he pursued a career as an educator and psychologist. Only when his son urged him to revisit his deferred dream, did he turn again to fiction. Read More Read Less