REGINALD N. SHIRES, a clergyman, grew up hiking the scrub lands of the Deccan in South India observing the beauty of India’s tribes and peoples and the rich bird and animal life of the jungles. Ed...voir plusREGINALD N. SHIRES, a clergyman, grew up hiking the scrub lands of the Deccan in South India observing the beauty of India’s tribes and peoples and the rich bird and animal life of the jungles. Educated first at Clarence High School in Bangalore, the city of his birth, he came under the influence of its principal William Wilcox and headmasters Arthur Flack and Mr. Wilson where he learned to think and write. He completed his college studies in theology and English at Spicer College, in Kirkee near Poona (Pune), where he freelanced for newspapers as a student. He went on to complete his M.A. in Journalism at Pennsylvania State University in the U.S.A. He also received his M.A. in theology at Michigan’s Andrews University. He served as church pastor to small and large congregations in India, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. He is also a college teacher of journalism and speech. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Times of India, Amrita Bazar Patrika and Indian Farming and other magazines and journals. His fiction appears in Voices on the Verandah, an anthology of stories from India. He is the author of At the Age for Love, a novel of Bangalore during the hectic days of World War II. He is married to Norma D’Sena, a nurse from the railway families of D’Sena and Hodges of Ajmer in Rajasthan. They have a daughter Juanita and three sons: Michael, Donn and Robert. He and his wife live outside the Washington D.C. metro area.voir moins