Lynmar Brock, Jr. is a native of Pennsylvania who grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs. He earned a bachelor's degree and an MBA from Dartmouth College before joining the U.S.Navy in 1956. He served on a destroyer in the U.S.Atlantic Fleet and later was transferred to the Pentagon, where he worked in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. After returning to civilian life, he took over operations of Brock and Company, his family's food-services company where he was president/CEO for forty-five years. In addition to The Inn of Ten, he is the author of In This Hospitable Land (selected by Am...