Ron Terpening Follow

Ron Terpening lives in Tucson, Arizona. He is the author of the thrillers Storm Track, League of Shadows, Tropic of Fear, Nine Days in October, and Cloud Cover, as well as the Artie Crenshaw trilogy—In Light’s Delay, The Turning, and The Echoes of Our Two Hearts, published as The Hornets’ Nest of Our Desires. He received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon in Eugene and his Master’s and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He has lived in Mexico City and in Pavia and Florence, Italy. He taught for four years at Loyola University of Chicago and for twenty-six years at the University of Arizona as a professor of Italian (now emeritus). He has also written numerous articles and books dealing with Italian literature, history, and culture.