 in Philosophy, he later undertook post-graduate work at the American University of Beirut and spent more than a decade in Europe and the Middle East, reporting for TIME-LIFE, ABC News, The Christian Science Monitor, the International Herald Tribune and other U.S. news organizations.He has reported from India, Morocco, Malaysia, China, Singapore, Colombia, Canada, Poland, Latvia, Estonia and many other countries and has interviewed and written profiles of dozens of famous and not-so-famous individuals—from Miles Davis drummer Art Taylor to civil rights icon John Lewis and award-winning Mexican poet and environmental activist Homero Aridjis.He has also served in the United States Air Force and is a former pilot.