A middle child, I was born in the depths of the Great Depression. My dad and mom were factory workers, struggling to make ends meet.
Dennis L. McKiernan
Upon graduation from high school, following my brother by a couple of years, I joined the U.S. Air Force.
In 1989, I retired from Bell Laboratories to become a full-time writer. Not that I didn't enjoy my engineering career, but rather I liked being a novelist just a bit better.
The Kwajalein waters are incredibly lucid: vision typically up to three hundred feet.
