Ron Cooper's novel, Hume's Fork, was called by author Ron Rash "one of the funniest novels I've read in a long time" and described by Rebecca Goldstein as a "mix of zaniness and erudition, satire and insight." His new novel, Purple Jesus, will appear in September 2010. He is a South Carolina native who moved to Florida in 1988 and teaches at the College of Central Florida. Cooper has a BA from the College of Charleston, an MA from the University of South Carolina, and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He is also the author of a number of philosophical works, including Heidegger and Whitehead: A Phenomenological Examination into the Intelligibility of Experience."