Gary BolickBorn and raised in Winston-Salem/Clemmons, NC. Lived and studied in Paris for a year before graduating from Wake Forest. It was at Wake I had the honor of studying under and being mentored by Germaine Bree. Amazing woman and scholar. Writing A WALKIN SHADOW was a true labor of love. When I was living in Paris, I was able to track down a copy of the first ten treatises of Jabir's "Book of Sixty-Nine Treatises". Finally, it seemed, studying French was paying off. No English translation existed of Jabir's work. I could read antiquity's greatest alchemist in his own words. When Jonas' shadow splits off and begins to both comfort and mock him it was, as Carl Jung speaks of in "Psychology and Alchemy," the conscious and unconscious attempting to find balance. Of course a few random events, a couple of love interests and the ever-present vulture flying overhead, helped out. Read More Read Less