Ahern, Edward

I was pretty sure that I'd starve as a writer, so I closed my notebook after college and spent fifty years doing other things. It was enjoyably haphazard, with an original wife, two children and five grandchildren as proof of life. Post university (BS Illinois) I got paid to be a Naval officer specializing in diving and bomb-disarming; a reporter for the Providence, Rhode Island Journal; a foreign intelligence specialist (interpret that however you like); and an international sales and marketing executive for two pulp and paper companies. I acquired an MBA from NYU with the idea that I'd frog