A native of Toronto, Canada, Robert Howse attended schools and university there and is also a graduate of Harvard Law School. In addition to many specialized works on international legal and economic questions and on political philosophy, he has published general interest non-fiction in magazines such as Foreign Affairs, Policy Review, and Legal Affairs. He has worked as a marketing executive; a construction security guard (in Gorbachev’s Russia), and a diplomat and foreign policy adviser; has taught at Toronto, Harvard, Tel Aviv, York (Canada), and Michigan Universities; and consulted to a wide range of governments, international organizations, NGOs and private corporations. He now lives on farmland in Washtenaw County, Michigan with his wife and Rottweilers. “Mozart” is his first work of fiction; he is completing a second novel, about middle-aged dating manners in the 21st century.