Turek, Charles A.

The author of 5 other published novels, one non-fiction book, short stories and many blog essays, Charles grew up in the Chicago area. He went to Jan Amos Komensky School in Berwyn, IL, a school from which he draws the family name for his PI protagonist Charlie Komensky. He graduated from J. Sterling Morton East High School in Cicero, IL, a town then noted for blue-collar work and the former headquarters location of the notorious gangster, Al Capone. He received a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Illinois Chicago, and an M.S. in chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champai...