Award-winning novelist R. Samuel Baty is a retired U.S. Air Force Officer and a retired Chief Scientist from industry. He has a Ph.D. in Engineering from UCLA, and he is presently an adjunct professor with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He has written numerous technical reports and is an avid reader of World War II history. He lives in Albuquerque, NM with his wife, Linda.

