His first novel, Silent Suspect, a legal mystery, was published in late 2014. He hopes to publish his second novel, The Mediator, in 2016, the story of unraveling the truth of a suspected WW II war crime occurring in 1944 among Italian partisans fighting the Germans in the Piemonte region. He has a B. A. in English from Yale University and a J. D. from the University of California (Berkeley) School of Law.