C. A. Hiddleston is a graduate of Southern Methodist University where he received a B.A. in Political Science and first learned of global warming in 1980 in a Philosophy of Technology class. Thereafter, he received a law degree from California Western School of Law in San Diego, California, where some of the book's scenery is from, of the primitive Earth. He works as a Senior Deputy Public Defender in Tulare County, California.
