I was born Illinois in 1949 but spent most of my early life in Seattle and Spokane. After graduation from the University of Southern California in Music and English, I studied creative writing at Brown University. I spent several years in France and Germany working as composer and pianist, composing ballet scores in Paris and for the Cologne and Heidelberg Opera houses. In New York and Los Angeles, I wrote underscore for commercials, industrial presentations, feature films (‘Perfect Strangers’ and ‘The Stuff’) and Broadway — ‘Starstruck’, an Off-Broadway play, has been continued as a successful comic book series.