Scott Barta was born in 1962. He is married and has two children, a 15-year-old son and an 11-year-old daughter. He grew up in Salina, Kansas-America's breadbasket-where his family first settled when Kansas was a brand-new state. Scott and his best friend of 47 years cofounded a Sasquatch research group, Sasquatch Investigations of the Rockies, which has been their greatest adventure to date. The Last of the Baby Boomers is his first novel.