Bill HarveyBill Harvey grew up in Colorado -a state poorly equipped with oceans. Because of this, he read all of C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels by the time he finished middle school. (He was a bookish lad.) From there it was a fairly straight line fom maritime history to the industrial revolution and its Victorian 'high-technology, ' and finally, the history of economics and finance. England was the center of it all.In order to support his reading, Harvey taught various things to various people, mostly adult people; including a stint teaching GED subjects to people in jail. (As an employee, NOT an inmate.) Along the way, he got very good at explaining complicated things to people. For example, factoring polynomials in the morning and the English Civil War in the afternoon.Harvey currently makes his home in San Francisco just to be able to take long walks in the city. Besides writing, he wastes an astonishing amount of enjoyable time building model ships from scratch and does a little fancy woodwork on the side. Read More Read Less