• BRUCE DEITRICK PRICE grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and decided at age seventeen to become a novelist. He graduated from Princeton, served two years in the army, and then settled in New York to pursue a career as a writer. He published a nonfiction book about explorers, and then his first novel, Ralph. He worked at a variety of part-time jobs before he started his own business, Word-Wise Advertising, which designs brochures and logos. His second novel, American Dreams, was published in 1984. In addition to fiction, he writes poetry and essays on language and eduction. He is also a painter who has had several shows.