Paul C. Cline is a retired university professor and author of Second Fiddles: Prime Examples of Strength in the Shadows, describing those real life and fictional persons who spend a career in the shadows aiding persons in charge, such as Bobby to JFK, Eleanor to FDR, Watson to Holmes, and Aaron to Moses. He worked in his earlier life as a printer's devil and in a paper mill. He served in Army Intelligence and practiced law for a time. He holds law and doctor of philosophy degrees and has held various public offices, including in the Virginia House of Delegates. He and Diane have two daughters, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.