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About The Author

Harry Kressing is the pseudonym of Harry Adam Ruber. He was born in New York in
1928,
the son of Harry and Jean Ruber. He attended Indiana University and went on to be a lawyer and also served in the U.S. Air Force. Little is known about Ruber, though he and his wife apparently lived for some time on the west coast of Ireland and also in London, where he researched at the London School of Economics. In late
1980s
, Ruber relocated to Minnesota, where his elderly father lived, and died in there in December
1990
.