Chris grew up in an Indiana farm town. His father was a country lawyer, his mother a dedicated English teacher. In addition to public schooling, his early ‘education' included baling hay, rabbit hunting, playing sports, dating, and hanging around pool halls. Eventually realizing the limitations of these experiences, essential as they were, he enrolled at Butler University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree. After teaching school for a year and after a four-year stint in the Army, he migrated to Southern California because of an opportunity in the insurance business. Eventually, he exchanged writing insurance policies for creative writing. In addition to two novels, he has written seven short stories and three plays. His fiction is highly inventive and nostalgically based. His dramatic writing explores themes of self-awareness and social polarity.
