Ken Farmer

Kenneth Farmer was born in Arkansas, but grew up in Oklahoma and Louisiana. Coming from a reading family, he was introduced to books at an extremely early age and began writing stories (unpublished, of course) in elementary school. A child of the dawning electronics age, after his military service he began as an engineer for IBM and saw the birth of the personal computer - a time when a nerd, to use a term that had not yet been invented in today's context, had to build one with loose parts and a soldering iron. Later, while getting his graduate degree in mathematics, and with a minor in ancient history, he discovered the pleasure of living a fantasy experience by writing historical fiction. Coupled with an intense interest in ancient Rome, it became his major pastime.