Robert S. Baumol graduated magna cum laude from Washington University, St. Louis, MO, with a B.A. in French and a J.D. He practiced law for 21+ years and then taught political science, global affairs, and criminal organizations at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, N.J. He is now retired and working on a second memoir. For 40 years, Robert and his wife, Sherry, have lived in the same house in Bergen County, NJ, where they raised their two children, Adam and Lauren.