Thomas K. Alexander is known to his friends as Tom.  He was born and raised in the U.S.A.He received his B.A. degree with Honors in Philosophy from Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut in the U.S.A..  He also received a doctorate in Law (J.D.) from New York University School of Law in New York, New York.  He is a retired member of the Massachusetts Association of Lawyers in the U.S.A. He has taught English for a number of years in China including several years at China’s National University of Defense Technology (N.U.D.T.). His hobbies include reading, writing fiction, and playing the guitar.