Bruce Paul studied creative writing at Ohio University. After graduating with honors in 1967, he traveled to San Francisco and lived in the Haight/Ashbury district. Bruce has been a singer-songwriter in a folk-rock band, an elementary school teacher in the Virgin Islands, a graduate student at Ohio University (English) and Miami University of Ohio (Educational Psychology), a taxi driver in Denver, a social worker in a maximum security prison, an investment advisor, a real estate developer, and a riverboat bartender. Bruce is the author of many songs and THE ARTAMA LEGEND series of books.