Jack Ricardo

I was born in Greenwich Village USA in 1940, a year before Japan caught us with our pants down. I was raised in Smalltown, New Jersey during the 1950s and fell head over heels for Judy's Vicky Lester and helped crown Elvis king while bopping to his 45s and styling my hair (badly) into a DA; and I saw the anguish of Jim Stark and Cal Trask in my mirror. In the 1960s, I fell in love, not wisely, and returned to NYC as a foolish young adult, escaping into the tarnished silver screens of 42nd Street. During the 1970s, I fell in love again, and again not wisely, plus I manned the barricades as a gay activist, and dove into the deep end of the dope and disco pools and survived intact (if you don't count the millions of little gray cells that may have been fried). During the 1990s, I had two gay mystery novels published, "Death With Dignity" and "The Night G.A.A. Died." The 2000s still sees me in Florida, and my latest novel, "Last Dance at Studio 54" is available in both paperback and eBook. My epic saga of "Sam's Hill" and my detective mystery of "Desperate Innocence" are now in e-book form and both will soon be available in paperback.