J. K. Hillstrom, aka Ken, was born to a large and loving farm family in Northern Michigan where his first credentials for writing this book was reading all of the books in his scho...ver maisJ. K. Hillstrom, aka Ken, was born to a large and loving farm family in Northern Michigan where his first credentials for writing this book was reading all of the books in his school’s closet-sized library. At age fourteen his family sold the farm and moved to Detroit where he began blue collar work as a soda jerk and later a factory worker while steadily reading. Next came military service and after his discharge as a staff sergeant several years as a merchant mariner to see some of the world and save money for college including graduate school. After earning the two degrees along with the honor of a Phi Beta Kappa key he became a career counselor at his university that brought about a published book by a New York publisher about finding suitable work after college, then subsequently settled into thirty-plus years of enjoyable employment himself as a technical writer-editor and manager at two corporations and NASA while also occasionally teaching writing as a part-time adjunct professor at two community colleges and the University of Houston.ver menos