jan Andrew Buck
ABOUT
Jan Andrew Buck is the author of seven full books, prose fiction or semi fiction, publicly available for purchase through Amazon or otherwise. Mr. Buck was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts and its suburbs where he attended the Boston Latin School and Newton High School. He then matriculated at Princeton University from which he was graduated with high honors. At Princeton he majored in English and trained as a poet and playwright. He was the poet laureate of his Class of 1967. He later graduated from Columbia Law School and served in the US Navy for three and a half years. Professionally he practiced corporate and transactional law on Wall Street. Thereafter he evolved into being a serial entrepreneur developing a number of technology-based products and companies.
After producing numerous written works in his professional capacity he retired from his commercial activities in the 1980s to concentrate on his creative prose ventures commencing with his first book, Einstein’s Mistake, a love story that embodied some of his insights in the field of theoretical physics and the nature of physical reality. In large part as a result of the enthusiastic response to that book he proceeded to produce his second book, Star Ship, drawn from his experiences on the Flagship of the US Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea in the early 1970s. Then at the behest of some in the physic faculty of Princeton he wrote his third book, Bird’s Eye, which fictionally embodied some of that faculty’s discoveries in the field of chaos theory.
To test his creative versatility, he produced his fourth book, God at the Gates, an historical novel about one of the most momentous events in the history western civilization, the siege of Vienna by the Ottoman Turks in the late 1600s. Upon its conclusion he reverted to combining advanced science with big picture spiritual fiction with his fifth book, Why Am I Here?
Mr. Buck’s sixth book was a tribute to his young grandson who had aspirations to become an astronaut. Mr Buck created a spectacular future life for young Decker in Decker in Space.
'Mr. Buck’s final book, so far, A String of Pickles, comprises a series of short vignette stories of difficult or awkward predicaments that certain fictional characters find themselves stumbling into and their entertaining resolutions. A String of Pickles thereby continues Mr. Buck’s penchant for trying his hand at a broad range of literary genres.
Mr. Buck today continues his creative efforts at his home in Princeton, New Jersey where he lives with his creative and productive wife Carol, who remarkably combines the noble practice of being a wife and mother with successes as an entrepreneurial CEO and cancer researcher.
Other Writings
Writing #1 — The Class of 1967 Poem
Writing #2 — How Columbia Law School Escaped the Sixties, a Personal Memory
Writing #3 — Taking the Measure of School Admissions Tests
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