The Temptation of Sight

About the Book

About the Author

John L. Gross was born January 12, 1950 in Frederick County, Maryland. He grew up in Brunswick, Maryland, a declining railroad boomtown. He attended the local public schools, spent two years at St. James, a private school in nearby Washington County, Maryland, received a BA degree in history from Hillsdale College in Michigan, and pursued graduate studies in European and Russian history at the University of Virginia. Shortly thereafter, he traveled extensively in still divided Europe, lived in France and Germany, returned home, fell in and out of love several times, buried his parents, and worked a variety of jobs as a freelance writer, translator, editor and property manager. He currently lives in Catonsville, Maryland.