The Evolution of Glory Loomis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781736850190)

Michael Bassen was born and raised in New York City, received his bachelor's degree from Trinity College (Conn) and his master's degree from Harvard. He spent the next thirty-two years as a public high school English teacher and union official on Long Island. In his time away from school, he's written several stories and full-length plays (one of them a finalist in the Eugene O'Neill playwriting competition), created a number of educational games (the last being "Shakespeare's Mind" based on Shakespeare's sonnets), and composed a great many songs (with and without lyrics). He currently lives in Lincoln, Rhode Island with his wife, just outside of Providence. Before that he lived on Long Island, in a house not unlike Glory's, in a town not unlike Sackatucket, for just over three decades. His first novel, The Evolution of Glory Loomis, was largely inspired by his wife (a teacher and writer) and two (now grown-up) daughters (a teacher and a child psychiatrist).