A.F. Knott was born in New York City. He has worked as a surveyor in the Offshore Oil Industry, a lunch deliverer, a paper broker, a thoroughbred handicapper, a cyclotron engineer and a physician before starting a publishing company. He is completing an oral history of the New York theater and writing pulp and dystopian novels as J. Jupes. Visit him at www.afknott.com and www.hekatepublishing.com.