S. Guy Lovelace was born in Kansas City, Missouri and he grew up in Syracuse, New York. He studied engineering at Cornell University and Liberal Arts and Architecture at Syracuse University. He has been the owner of an Architectural/Interior Design firm, a Construction firm and a Caribbean hotel as well as furniture manufacturing operations in Mexico, Haiti and Costa Rica. Upon retiring in 2002 he seriously pursued his previous hobby of writing. His first book The Carnival Never Got Started was published in 2005. It is the hilarious account of his and his family's experiences designing, buildi...