About the Author
Raymond M. Weinstein was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1939. He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1957, enlisted in the U.S. Army, selected the 33-week radar repair course at Fort Monmouth, and was sent to Fort Ord, California before being transferred to Germany. He received his discharge in 1960, enrolled in Baruch College, CUNY, and received his B.B.A. in statistics in 1963. He then went on to graduate school in sociology and received an M.A. in 1966 and Ph.D. in 1968 from the University of California at Los Angeles. During his academic career, he taught at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and the University of South Carolina at Aiken, where he retired in 2012 as Distinguished Professor Emeritous of Sociology. He has published many articles in professional journals on topics such as mental illness, psychiatric patients, illicit drug use, social service organizations, Coney Island, amusement parks, and Elvis Presley. This is his second novel. Currently he is working on a sequel and divides his time between residences in Georgia and New York.
