The Maze Beyond The Garden

About the Book

-none-

About the Author

Janusz Czubakowski was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1935, the second son of Polish immigrants. At 10, Longfellow’s ``The Skeleton in Armor” awoke his love of poetry. He has worked as a counter of holes in IBM punch cards, a technician for the University of Chicago library’s photo-duplication laboratory (drilling holes in concrete, among other duties) and as a copy boy on the New York Daily News. He once was obliged to subsist solely on 3 pounds of bananas a day for 11 days (they cost 6 cents a pound). He enlisted in the Army in 1955 and worked on the TB and men’s closed psychiatric wards at the hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. Eventually, he became copy desk chief for Electronic News. He is married, with one son and two grandsons, both with English accents. He lives in Maine with his wife of 50 years, Alexine.