Frank SousaFrank Sousa was born in Stoneham, Massachussetts, a suburb of Boston. His English grandparents arrived in this country at the time of the Boston Fire. His Portuguese grandparents came here not speaking a word of English. Married to his high school swetheart, they live in a small Western Massachusetts town. Hes has been a police reporter, outdoor columnist for the Springfield newspapers, and an active scuba diver, rappeller, mountain climber, hockey and softball player, bird watcher, adventure, and flower sniffer. His college creative writing professor was Ted Hughes of The Hawk in the Rain, later poet laureate of Great Britain, Sylvia Plath of The Bell Jar was his great promoter in encouraging Frank, believing his writing was wonderful, although she confessed she did not understand it as she wrote in American His large family is everything to him and also includes English setters Chumley and Elmer and every stray, dropped-off waif on their country road. Read More Read Less