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The artwork is single and original, signed on the lower right with "Arch" and on the back. It will be completed by a certificate of authenticity from the artist. Always guaranteed satisfied or refunded for any reason I graduated high school in 1948 and enlisted in the army for three years. Next I went to college majoring in English Literature. I later earned a master’s degree and a doctorate in clinical social work. For thirty years I was a faculty member at a local university in Philadelphia and served as a tenured professor. Upon retiring I returned to school and completed an MA in creative writing. I work out in the gym three days a week. I love reading, writing, films, classical music, and my two cats, Bandit and The Kid. Oh, and there are also some humans I love amongst my friends and family, but I enjoy solitude much of the time. When did you start writing? I began writing in college where I wrote several one-act plays, which were published in the school’s literary journal. Two of them were performed on the college stage. While in academia I started writing non-fiction related to my professional work. Once in the creative writing program I started writing short stories and began my novel there. What genres have you written? I’ve written both fiction and non-fiction. The latter is clinical-scholarly in nature, the former mainstream drama. Is Silent Battlefields your first book? No, it is my seventh, but it is my first novel. Tell us about your first book. What is it about? It is about the Holocaust and its aftermath almost three decades later on two families. One family is that of parents who are survivors with a young adult son. The other is a gentile family with a husband who was once a Hitler Youth and German soldier. It also has a young adult son. When members of both families begin to meet and interact, startling revelations surface and unexpected relationships develop.