Rowan Skye was born in Independence and lived in a state of Missouri for most of his young adult life. He showed great literary promise at an early age, winning highest honors in cursive writing and consistently scoring in the 90th percentile on the reading comprehension portions of standardized tests. Despite serious setbacks in P.E. and Shop class, he went on to become a regular contributor to his high school's literary magazine with an active circulation of over a dozen socially maladroit freshmen. In college, he branched out into Russian literature, creative writing, and girls. Following i...