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Biography
Richard E. Peck is an author, playwright, and retired academic, whose writing career — detoured for years — resumed when he left academe. After a career as an English professor and university administrator — president at one time or another of three universities — he now divides his time among three very satisfying pursuits: restrained meddling in the lives of his children and grandchildren, golfing at a level far below his aspirations, and writing.
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Peck continues to resist persistent but fading desires to return to the classroom. Occasional consulting stints remind him of the political pressures he’s traded away in order to take on the even more demanding but self-imposed goals and deadlines of full-time writing.
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Peck was born in Wisconsin on August 3rd, 1936. After graduating from high school (at 16) and two years of factory work, he enlisted in the Marine Corps, as a green PFC was selected for flight training, and in June,