Richard earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance from California State University Long Beach. His diverse professional background has spanned from the 104th floor of the original World Trade Towers in New York as an Institutional Stock Trader to a major software corporation working closely with the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community.

 

Maximus is his first novel. He defines it as a ten-year research project that became a labor of love. Richard is currently working on his next project entitled

Starfish , the saga of a young Danish woman who immigrates to the timber country of Humboldt County in Northern California during World War ll.

 

Richard is a native of San Diego, California. He and his wife of 44 years, the former Marian Anne Johnsen, from Santa Rosa, California are the parents of eight children and grandparents of six beautiful granddaughters and three handsome grandsons. Richard enjoys traveling, swimming in the ocean, playing the guitar and working on cars with his four sons.