Lewis Jenkins began preparing to write books when his father read him Pogo comics at bedtime. They sparked the boy’s fascination with both human history and comic fantasy, because dad explained the social and political satire. He graduated from the University of Akron with a BA in Education and an Ohio teaching certificate in history, government, and math. Because Pop read him Pogo, he wanted to escape math for a while each week by sharing fascinating true stories of the past. The media often portrayed tragicomic human history as something dated and tedious. He would teach it as a storyteller sharing insider news. But coaches had the history courses sewed up. So for ten years he bought and sold industrial machinery. Then he worked forty years, writing computer code in Cobol, Forth, Java, and other languages for Sherwin Williams, Office Max, Goodyear, and others. He retired to write articles and stories, all in English. His lifetime of reading history, mystery, and sci-fi shows, but his Diary of a Robot novel is not about the past, nor is it so much a tale of AI science fiction. Consider it a story of future history since it and its sequel are probably happening. His children’s book, Maynard and the Bullies, was born out of his Robot book. It grew by feasting first on his own fights with bullies, and then on the realization that most human history is about bullying, and families (including clans and nations), and inventions (including ideas and lies).