First-time novelist Nick Mann has worked as an organization development practitioner since 1976. He previously served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army in the late 1960s, and managed a manpower and social services program in the early 1970s. He earned his Ph.D. in human communication studies at Howard University. Dr. Mann is on the adjunct faculty of the Federal Executive Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia, and lives in Washington, D.C.