Robert lives in Waterford, ME where he draws inspiration for his writing in the beauty and history of the Oxford Hills. He has written three novels of historic fiction and a series of non-fiction articles for local groups. As a retired landscape architect, he draws upon his appreciation for both the natural and developed world to provide vivid views of the environment. Before moving to Maine, he lived in Charlestown, MA for 43 years where he ran a design-build garden design practice and founded the first company in the US to import and distribute Irish Blue Limestone, a unique multipurpose building material. He received an MA in English Literature from University of Massachusetts in Amherst and a Graduate Certificate in Landscape Design from Radcliffe Seminars (now Boston Architectural College). When not writing from his perch atop an historic waterfall next to the renovated millhouse in which he lives, he gardens, serves as a trustee of the local Library, and heads a community effort to make a commemorative walking trail along Waterford’s City Brook.