Born 8 December 1948, the author, Douglas Richard Taylor, moved from his birthplace in Pittsburgh, PA to the southwest suburbs of Chicago in 1951. There he grew up in Western Springs and Indian Head Park, IL. In June of '63, the family moved to Frankfort, KY where the author graduated from high school and went on to the University of Cincinnati to earn a B.A. in Philosophy in 1971. He attended graduate school for a time at the University of Iowa, but left to take a bride and an employment situation with Deere & Co., Moline, IL, in 1973.

While employed with John Deere, the author served as a Dealer Management representative, Territory Manager, and part-time journalist for the John Deere Journal. All the while gaining tenure before moving on to run a 3-dealership venture of John Deere, Kubota, and Massey Ferguson farm equipment in Gulfport and Pascagoula, MS and Slidell, LA as Comptroller.

His journeys have taken him across the expanse of the U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico gaining him a wide range of experience learning about people from all walks of life.

He has canoed the white water rapids of the Ocoee River in eastern Tennessee; traveled by mule down from the rim of the Grand Canyon; worked with Indian tribes from the Seminole of Lake Okeechobee and the Pueblo of New Mexico to the Sioux at Saskatchewan, Canada; hunted waterfowl at the family homestead in North Dakota; and deep-sea fished off Lands End, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

He lived for a time in New York City, traveling to Woodstock for the festival in '69 and has worked in such places as Toronto, Ontario, Memphis, Nashville, and Chattanooga, TN, Jackson and Gulfport, MS, St. Louis, MO, and New Orleans, LA. Residing now in southern California, he lives by the sea in Port Hueneme, making his home there since 1986.

Currently employed with the Ventura County Library System from which he does much of his research, Mr. Taylor is also commissioned with a small publishing company out of Palm Springs, CA where the author/artist has created a series of drawings and articles on erotica and fetish art.