Dennis Frank Macek (MA-chek, a Czech name) is a former full-time college-English teacher (University of Texas at El Paso, University of Maryland Overseas Division), U. S. government operative (California), and now a retired HVAC mechanic-technician from the University of Texas at Austin. His degrees are from Marquette University and the University of Arizona. Macek is married to Judith Kay Wilson, a professor of literacy at the University of Nebraska. They live in Lincoln, Nebraska, and practice Zen Buddhism and Transcendental Meditation. Macek has authored A Rose from Charlie and Marie (on Amazon.com), which Kirkus Reviews calls "a metaphorically charged spy tale . . . . A multifaceted meditation on the ephemeral nature of existence, doubling as an equally intricate espionage thriller." Clarion Reviews rates it four stars and comments on its readability and uniqueness. The apotheosis of life imitating art, Macek stood for the U. S. Senate as a Nonpartisan in 2014 and again in 2018 as a "pragmatic, realistic Republican." This novel, Going Home (A Return to Golden Mycenae), "I wrote to energize readers to live vitally by realizing that our nature shows us to be an essential element of cosmic reality (much like a drop of sea water is part of an ocean). We needn't know the why of this, nor can we. But we can live accordingly."
