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After serving in the US Army in California and Germany, Paul began work as a library clerk in Frankfurt, Germany, and upon his return to the States, earned a Masters in Library Science at Rutgers University. Since then, the Chicago native has worked as a public library director in New Jersey, New Mexico and California; as the Bibliography Editor for Encyclopedia Britannica; as a military library director in Mannheim, Germany; library director for an international peace keeping organization in the Sinai Desert in Egypt; director of a librarian training center in Baku, Azerbaijan; and a library advisor for a sytem of American libraries in Russia. Needless to say, his reading interests now are very broad and number in the hundreds. "In the last year, though," he says, "I've been hunkering down and reading ancient history and philosophy. It's my own 'back to basics' program. As Alfred North Whitehead said that European philosophy is just a series of footnotes to Plato, one might also say that modern intellectual discourse constitutes little more than a variation on themes fully disucssed by the Greeks. At any rate, it is along the ancient Mediterranean shores that I currently wander." |
