Charles L, Fields grew up surrounded by the seaside beauty of Rockport, Massachusetts, and the artists who atempted to depict it. He attended Duke University and graduated from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in 1958.His varied and bizarre careers went from banana boat engineer to wholesale lobster dealer to chicken hatchery manager and included being a poet,sculptor and worlds traveler. He has received numerous sculpture awards and has served for over 10 years as Membership Chair of the New England Sculptors Association. He is married and divides his time between Massachusetts and Arizona, after publishing his memoir, Many Lands Many Hearts he followed with the Charles Stone travel mystery series, Sentimental Me, Canyons of the Soul, Broken Spirit and Tainted Dish.