After a 40 year business career in Kansas City, New York City and Tempe, Arizona, Gene House retired. During his working years he wrote several computer system documentation and technical manuals that were published internally. Upon retirement he began writing the history of his family. It was while writing the biographies of family members that he discovered the joy of writing. The novel The Spanish Dancer germinated when he wrote about an ancestor who fought in the 1812 War. Early American history has always fascinated him. The lives of the early settlers of Tennessee and the Missouri Territory, has become a favorite subject. Many of his short stories and two novels were written in that genre. His writing accomplishments include, Adventures along the Dash, an autobiography and memoir, House Family, Ancestors and Descendants, plus several articles and essays. Every day he spends several hours in front of the computer, writing or researching a story, except during football season. Gene, also, has become an avid landscape water colorist, and has illustrated some of his children's stories and memoirs.
