About the Author

Always impatient, Dennis O’Flaherty decided early on that it wasn’t fair to have to wait a whole lifetime before trying his next life. As a result, he’s been a U.S. Marine (rifleman, radioman, Corporal E-4), a historian of Russia (Harvard, Oxford, State University of Moscow on the U.S. Cultural Exchange), and a Grub Street hack in Hollywood (a shared Edgar Award for the script on Coppola’s Hammett, many Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle scripts, even a handful of cigar ads).

Now, after a lifetime of gypsying, he is happily settled in Arizona with his wife Mel, cats Smokey and Mickey, and legions of anonymous white-winged doves and collared lizards. But the anchor has always been his writing, and he still sees no reason to argue with W. B. Yeats’ dictum: “Of all the many changing things … words alone are certain good.”