Don graduated from the innovative New College (Sarasota, Florida) where he studied literature, psychology, and religion. At Boston University he earned a doctorate in Education, with a dissertation on the writer /naturalist Henry David Thoreau. For decades he has been teaching short story writing-memoir and/or fiction-at the Cambridge Center. Don was a social worker at a state mental hospital (Kentucky) and taught homeless people (Boston). For 12 years he was a technical writer with two healthcare software companies. He is currently in his 5th year teaching writing at Curry College (Milton, Massachusetts). Don's main reading interests are in memoir and fiction, biography and history. He has completed two memoirs, two novels, and two collections of short stories.