Lawrence Cromwell
I was born in Coral Gables, Florida, in 1950. Other than on vacations, I never left the state until 1983, when I became a Peace Corps Volunteer teaching math, science, and even English In Kenya, East Africa. My experience in Kenya opened a whole new world of self-reliance and personal discovery for me and I also got married in Nairobi to Suzanne Cromwell, whom I had met in Miami at a party shortly before proposing marriage and leaving for Africa.
S he flew over from the U.S. and we had a civil ceremony about 39 years ago. After finishing my two-year tour, Suzanne and I returned to the States. I then started teaching math at an inner-city school in West Palm Beach, and Suzanne worked as an architect.
After five years of teaching in the States, I started working for DoDEA, teaching the dependent children of deployed U.S. soldiers in South Korea and then Belgium over a fourteen-year period. After finishing my overseas career, I worked for eight years at Quantico Middle/High School until I retired from full-time teaching to live in Hobe Sound, Florida where I taught and tutored students in math, chemistry, and physics on a part time basis.
During my teaching years, I would sometimes get ideas for stories and just start writing them down. Deciding to monetize these stories pushed me to publish some of them on Amazon Kindle, where I still have a few of my best works on sale.
As mentioned earlier, I began writing in a rather circuitous way. Growing up, I had never considered myself to be a writer due to the fact that I hated reading, couldn’t stand literature, and had no reason to believe that I could ever be a journalist or writer of any kind. I never had the luxury of studying anything that didn’t have to do with learning and teaching math and science. But once I started writing, I found out that I enjoyed it (sans the English teachers standing over me and disapproving of my efforts). Now, I have published a number of short stories and I published my first novel, Seven Manipulated Minds in March of 2023. Which proves to anybody who thinks they can’t write that they should try once again.
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