A 6-Year Affair: The Post Graduate Educations of a Scientist and of a Writer

An emerging young writer encourages a middle aged widow to enter graduate school and pursue her dream of studying microbiology. The story chronicles their love affair and their professional development.

After graduating from Princeton with a BA degree in economics Roger Derby spent 4 years in the United States army. Upon his discharge he decided to reinvent himself and pursued an engineering curriculum at the Colorado School of Mines from which he received both his master's and doctor's degrees. During a long career he has been a researcher, a government bureaucrat, a teacher and a business owner. He has published several dozen technical papers. A 6-Year Affair is his first work of fiction.