For forty years, v traven worked as a professor and researcher at one of Texas’ premier universities, where he authored or coauthored 150 scholarly works. On his retirement in the autumn of 2011, at the age of seventy, he decided to begin a new career as a commercial writer and author. The son of a career soldier, traven early developed a life-long penchant for travel; thus, Memoirs of a Dromomaniac represents his first foray into the world of commercial literature and the settings shift from various parts of North America to most of Eurasia and segments of North and East Africa. *”v traven” is a pseudonym that spoofs the pen name chosen by the legendary reclusive writer, B.Traven who was the author of inter alia The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which was first published in New York in 1935 by Alfred A. Knopf.