About the author
Robert J. Begiebing, Professor of English Emeritus at Southern New Hampshire University, is the author of many articles and stories, a play, and nine books, including two books of criticism, an historical anthology of nature writing, a New England trilogy of novels spanning 1648-1850, and The Turner Erotica (2013), a novel based on the life and work of British painter J.M.W. Turner. His most recent book is a memoir set in the 1950s, entitled A Berkshire Boyhood: Confessions and Reflections of a Baby Boomer (2014).