John Palmer

John P. Palmer was born and raised in Muskegon, Michigan. He barely graduated from Carleton College in 1965, having spent more time on the identity crisis than studying. After attending Chicago Theological Seminary for two years, he realized he wasn’t cut out to be a church minister, but he loved economics and so he somehow gained admission to the economics graduate program at Iowa State University. He received a PhD in 1971 and took a job at The University of Western Ontario that same year. He retired from UWO forty years later. In addition to the usual reams of academic drek, he has published four novels and five short stories.