Randolph Splitter graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hamilton College; earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley; taught literature, creative writing, and composition for many years at Caltech and De Anza College; and edited the national literary magazine Red Wheelbarrow for ten of those years. In addition to stories and essays, he has published three books: The Ramadan Drummer, Body and Soul, and Proust's 'Recherche': A Psychoanalytic Interpretation. He's also written prize-winning screenplays and made short films. The son of immigrants from Vienna, he currently lives with his wife in Portland, Oregon. When he's not reading, writing, or playing tennis, he likes to exercise his social conscience.
