Paul Enns WiebePaul Enns Wiebe grew up in the Idaho outback. Early on he found that the life of irrigating spuds, driving trucks, repairing fences, digging ditches, chasing mad steers across the open range, and castrating the occasional boar was not to his liking. his discovery led him to the halls of higher education. Bethel College (Kansas) granted him a BA.; the University of Chicago eventually sent him away to Wichita State University, then presented him with a PhD. At Wichita State he taught religion and literature and performed the tasks of his chosen profession-translating and writing books on the theory of religion, composing footnotes for journal articles, and arriving late at the meetings of those committees he could recall having been assigned to. But his mastery of the academic proprieties was never more than tenuous. Thus it came as no surprise to his colleagues and students when he resigned his tenured position and, in an attempt to recapture a vanishing sanity, took to writing comic novels. Wiebe now lives in Colorado with his wife, Elly. Read More Read Less