Robert Mykle

I’m a Boston boy, born and bred in Beantown. As a child of the much maligned 60s, I was pro-active in many of the news-making events of the day (Free Bobby Seal, the Chicago Seven, the March on Washington). For ten years I played bass guitar and sang for a rock 'n' roll band while playing solo on the folk coffeehouse circuit and can still do a good Dylan imitation.

After graduation from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, I headed for an extended tour of South America. I spelunked in Bolivia, fished in Patagonia, tromped through the jungles of the Amazon and Orinoco river basins and climbed the eighteen thousand foot Sierra Nevada de Cocuy in Colombia.

During one of many jungle trips through the Amazon and Orinoco River basins, he crossed paths with leftist guerillas who, fortunately, were too preoccupied to bother with a lost gringo.

I still I travel extensively and each year run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain.

Killer 'Cane: The Deadly Hurricane of 1928, my first non-fiction book, was the recipient of the Florida Historical Library Foundation, 2003 Carolynn Washbon Book Award and the Florida Writers' Association Royal Palm Literary Award for nonfiction, 2002.

I currently live in Florida.