Edward Bear was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Los Angeles. Early adventures included a brief stint in minor-league baseball, too many years in construction, day labor and other dead-end jobs. A correspondence course in engineering landed him a job at Hewlett-Packard, where he was employed for nearly thirty years. Previous publications include several fiction pieces in small literary magazines and journals, a baseball novel and The Dark Night of Recovery: Conversations from the Bottom of the Bottle, The Seven Deadly Needs, The Seven Deadly Fears, Tyler and the Twelve Traditions, Edward and Tyler, Relapse and Recovery and The Cocktail Cart. Mr. Bear lived high up in the Rocky Mountains with his wife, played a vintage Martin guitar, and wrote in whatever time the gods and goddesses gave him.