The author, a medical doctor, had a private practice of Family Medicine, retiring in 1989 from medicine but not from life. He studied creative writing at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Edwin Mellen Press published Wandering Voices, a book of verse in 1999. In the year 2000, the Xlibris Press published Richard and Sabina, a biography of the Reverend Richard Wurmbrand and his wife Sabina. Several years ago, the author decided to put the book of Genesis of the Holy Bible into verse. 4004 BC, illustrated by Najah Clemmons, is the final product.