Steve Bennett was born in Boston, giving him immediate literary credential, and grew up in Connecticut and San Diego, supplying him with expertise in history and tanning. Having been raised on Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, the Marx Bros., Steve Allen, Mad Magazine and countless hours of mindless television shows--along with his years spent in church--he has acquired a whimsically distorted view of life and the afterlife which he presents herein and hereafter.