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Robert Ferrigno |
 | Robert Ferrigno was born in Florida, growing up on the last paved street of a small town, and spent his youth cutting secret passages through the palmetto thickets with a machete and occasionally burning down those palmettos for the simple pleasure of seeing the fire trucks arrive, sirens blaring. After earning a college degree in Philosophy and a Masters degree in Creative Writing, Ferrigno thought that he would be happy being a college professor, writing dense, literary novels which he would assign to his students. However, he found that being a professor was mostly a matter of going to meetings, and instead he went back to his first love, poker. He spent the next five years gambling full-time and living in a high-crime area populated by starving artists, alcoholics and petty criminals. After a time, Robert got restless and used some of his winnings to start a punk rock magazine called "The Rocket." he success of "The Rocket" got him a job as a feature writer for a daily newspaper in Southern California, where he took the adventure-and-new-money beat. Over the next seven years he flew with the Blue Angels, drove Ferraris and went for desert survival training with gun nuts. Great job but he wanted to write novels. He quit his day job and started work. He currently lives in the Pacific NW. |
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