Michael JianMichael Jian was born in Los Angeles to a military family. He spent his boyhood and youth in California suffering the moves of military families to other states in various stages of growing up. His father, however, was from Georgia (Thomasville), so y the time college approached, he settled in as a Southerner.He majored in Modern Languages at The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina which, after military service, led to graduate school at the Sorbonne in Paris for MA s in Russian and International Relations and an on-and-off career in international business. It was in Paris that the flame to write was ignited. A pilot light if you wish. And decades before that could be realized.After minor successes and multiple failures in business as an entrepreneur, the fact that he had lived in four countries beside his own and known twenty-three countries, some well and some briefly, he found he had an abundance of stories to tell and heroes to write about. He earned his doctorate in Economics-Political Science from Claremont Graduate University in 2013. Michael Jian resides in Newport Beach, California. Read More Read Less