Gary Foltz
Born 1938
Decatur, Illinois
Covina High School
Covina, California (L.A. County)
Graduated 1956
Mt. San Antonio College 1956-1958
San Francisco State University
Creative Writing and Philosophy
1959-1961
Army 1962-1964
Married 1967
University of California, Berkeley
College of Environmental Design
1967-1971
Bachelor of Architecture
1971
About the Authors
Tom Draper
Born 1937
San Francisco, California
Oceanside High School
Oceanside, California (San Diego County)
Graduated 1955
Mt. San Antonio College
1956-1958
University of California, Berkeley
1959
San Francisco State University
1960-1964
BA English Literature and History
Married 1966
Divorced 1978
Our
Time Stories is a collaboration which began more than forty years
ago, in the 1950s, when Tom and Gary first met as junior college newspaper
editors. They became close friends and spent a significant part of their youth
in a San Francisco which promised young men and women the kinds of adventure
they were looking for.
Those adventures
included forays in the Sierras along the John Muir trail, a wild few days
on the Pacific Ocean, freight train rides, poetry, theatre, and writing —
journals, letters, poems, short stories, novels.
They also entered
into their first major collaboration — together they wrote an experimental
novel, Under the Ball. Each created major characters and though
their book was never published, their characters lived!
Our Time Stories
is their latest adventure.
They married in the
1960s, families followed, Gary going on to study architecture, becoming a
furniture designer, becoming a technical writer in the newly developing field
of software design; Tom teaching preschool, traveling to Europe, living there
for five years, becoming a sports editor for a small newspaper on California’s
central coast.
Through that time
they maintained their friendship.
In the early 1970s,
Gary began a grand, sweeping, visionary novel called In 2020.
Significantly, in current version of In 2020, he is merging
characters from Under the Ball to create a mosaic-like saga
that stretches from the fifties to the twenties and beyond.
Tom’s Dancing
Backwards kicks off a series of Kyle Walker mysteries. The second
book in the series is already completed and a third is in the first-draft,
planning stages.
Gary and Tom can
often be seen around the Bay Area, shamelessly advertising themselves by wearing
their site sweat shirt, logo included.
