Gregory Gibson"After college I spent 4 years in the Navy, reading Pound and then Olson and, of course, the dozens of writers those giants insisted one must have familiarity with, before even thinking of adding a word to the conversation. Oh, I aspired to those heihts! But time carried me to a different place. I'm an antiquarian book dealer and a writer, so I've got the best of both worlds.I began in the bookselling trade in 1976 and had been an inveterate scribbler since the 1960s, but I didn't become a writer until 1999. Sadly ("ironically" doesn't seem apt here), I'm a writer because my son Galen was killed in a school shooting in 1992. In in the wake of this event, in order to keep from harming or killing myself or anyone else, I determined to pour my energies into answering the question foremost in everyone's mind, mine foremost - "How could this have happened?"A lengthy and therapeutic investigation led to my first book, Gone Boy, followed by four more books. And now this calm, demented one." Read More Read Less