About the Author

Richard Paradise was born in St. Louis, MO, and raised in Johnson County, KS. He is the author of Growing Up in the OP: Tales of a Midwestern Baby Boomer and Living Life Riverside: Our Nightmarish Pursuit of the American Dream. Educated by nuns, Jesuits and Jayhawks, he has spent the majority of his career writing about cements and adhesives for the commercial roofing industry. Not until his Colorado midlife crisis, the details of which are relayed in Living Life Riverside, did he begin writing for the sake of posterity and as a means of maintaining his sanity in an insane situation. Richard lives in Overland Park, KS, with his wife, Julie, and his beloved dog, Lucy.