автор: John Macgregor

The author lived a Tom Sawyer boyhood amidst moss-draped oaks and sugarcane plantations alongside the Mississippi River in South Louisiana. At age twelve, he was uprooted from this idyllic childhood and transplanted to the big city life of New Orleans where his love of history and the old South flourished. At the University of New Orleans, he double-majored in history and foreign languages. He dreamed of traveling to and from Europe teaching English at the European universities and French and German at the New Orleans ones. This might work for a bachelor but not for a man wanting to marry and raise a family. He went to medical school instead. Today, he practices psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Mandeville, Louisiana, a suburb on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain across from Greater New Orleans. Besides visiting his children and grandchildren, his greatest interest is traveling the world with his wife. He also enjoys golf, fine dining, and a sip or two of single malt Scotch after an eleven-and-a-half hour workday.