Hardy C MeneesHardy C. Menees has been a raconteur for decades, spinning stories to entertain family, friends, clients, and colleagues. With this fiction collection, the raconteur has become an author, proudly following in the footsteps of his journalist father. Fculty at Princeton University urged him to pursue a career as a college professor and author after he earned a bachelor's degree in English literature (cum laude) in 1970. Instead, he opted to attend law school and and has practiced as a civil trial attorney in St. Louis, Missouri, for the last forty-eight years. Menees holds two law degrees: a JD and an LL.M., the latter earned at age seventy-four. He and his wife, Kathy, live in Kirkwood, a St. Louis suburb, near their two adult children and four grandchildren. Read More Read Less