Dennis Joel Reader was born in Santa Cruz, California, the same week that the Second World War began in Europe. He attended local schools, including Watsonville High School, going on to earn a Ph.D. in Literature at the University of California, San Diego. For a decade he taught at Western Illinois University. With wife Karen they have three children, four grandchildren. Home for Dennis Reader has long been acreage in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where he writes a little, operates his tractors a lot, and has planted his own redwood forest.

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