Peter Bono is an Italian American who grew up in the '50s, '60s, and '70s in the Bushwick/Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn where drugs, petty crime, and gang violence were common. Writing a novel was last on his "bucket list," which included riding motorcycles, skydiving, and completing the New York City Marathon. He is a veteran of the Vietnam War, (not on his bucket list), afterward was employed at the Veterans Affairs Hospital on Long Island for 29 years. For the past four decades, he has lived in Northport, New York.
