Bob Knapp is a former science teacher and school psychologist. When not writing, he maintains his suddenly aged house, tends his vegetable garden, or attends church. Although a lifelong prisoner of the Baltimore metropolitan area, Bob had escaped as a preteen and as a college student to small town America. At later dates he earned visits to his wife’s little town in West Virginia. Bob drew from the latter to provide the setting for his first novel, The Devil’s Palm. He is currently working on a novel about a Depression era adolescent Choctaw Indian who is striving to overcome a physical handicap, poverty and abuse. Living with Bob in Perry Hall, Maryland are his wife, his youngest son, his daughter-in-law, and three of his grandchildren.