Franklin Pillsbury lives in California and Arizona, the youngest of three children. He is fifty-three years old, unmarried, and a substitute teacher in the high schools. He has bac...view moreFranklin Pillsbury lives in California and Arizona, the youngest of three children. He is fifty-three years old, unmarried, and a substitute teacher in the high schools. He has bachelors and masters degrees in literature. His father, a professor of education, took a family to live in Afghanistan for several years when Franklin was a boy. They also lived in Europe while the elder Pillsbury did research and writing for The United Nations. Franklin is a world traveler visiting places including Nepal, Iran, Mexico, the Soviet Union and Japan. He grew up in Southern California, a descendant of pioneers and early patrician family, absorbing the 1960’s and their aftermath. A westerner through and through, he’s at home in the saguaro deserts of Arizona or The Grand Canyon as well as Disneyland, Yosemite or the Sequoia redwoods. Once a surfer, he’s also Buddhist meditator reflecting on the Pacific influences there on the farthest shores of the known world-at the end of ancient line, he sits waiting there by the well of souls.view less