Paul Ingram has been a bookseller ever since he has been old enough to have a grown-up job. Since 1989 he has worked at Prairie Lights bookstore, doing what he can to influence the literary taste of the Iowa City community through radio, video, book clubs, book festivals, reviews, and of course, person-to-person. This has been no small job in a town where even the baristas carry Ph.d's in English. He is married to Ellen Heywood and they have 3 grandchildren. In his free time he reads and listens to classical music.