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About me

Location	Stone Mountain
Introduction	To paraphrase John LeCArre's immortal career path, I have been a tinker, a tailor, a soldier and a spy. You might count my newspaper and magazine writing and poetry as tinkering, and of course it had to be tailored to fit whatever publication I was writing for. I've been hacking a long time. Told my students the other day I started writing when I was eight, although I wasn't actually published anywhere until I was at least 12. I chose the name "Scipio" in honor and memory of the great Roman general who never gave up, even when the Roman Senate begged him to, and who eventually drove Hannibal Barca out of Italy and sowed salt in the soil of fallen Carthage. The "Gibraltar" was taken from an old name for a major Georgia topographical monument, which can almost be seen from the end of my street.

Location

Stone Mountain

Introduction

To paraphrase John LeCArre's immortal career path, I have been a tinker, a tailor, a soldier and a spy. You might count my newspaper and magazine writing and poetry as tinkering, and of course it had to be tailored to fit whatever publication I was writing for. I've been hacking a long time. Told my students the other day I started writing when I was eight, although I wasn't actually published anywhere until I was at least 12. I chose the name "Scipio" in honor and memory of the great Roman general who never gave up, even when the Roman Senate begged him to, and who eventually drove Hannibal Barca out of Italy and sowed salt in the soil of fallen Carthage. The "Gibraltar" was taken from an old name for a major Georgia topographical monument, which can almost be seen from the end of my street.