Robin Cody was born at St. Helens in 1943 and grew up in Estacada, Oregon. A graduate of Yale, he taught at the American School of Paris for a decade and was Dean of Admissions at Reed College in Portland. While writing, he has been a baseball umpire, a basketball referee, and a special ed shool bus driver.
His "Ricochet River," a novel, and "Voyage of a Summer Sun," nonfiction, were first published by Alfred A. Knopf. Both are in the Oregon State Library's "150 Books for the Oregon Sesquicentennial," 2009.
"Another Way the River Has," 2010, is a collection of short true stories published by Oregon State University Press.
Cody lives with his wife, Donna, in Portland