Paul Garson

G. Paul Garson was born in Washington, D.C.,grew up in W.Palm Beach,FL, graduating from Forest Hill High School with high grades and a couple expulsions. On to Tulane University in New Orleans where via several miracles he survived and graduated, followed by his first-time teaching experience while living among migrant worker children in South Florida, then on to M.A. graduate work in Writing and Literature at The Johns Hopkins U. in Baltimore, during which he won First Place in the Carolina Quarterly National Young Fiction Writers contest, followed by 6 month run to Mexico before returning to more teaching at a private school.

Using a small Olivetti typewriter he punched out a science fiction novel immediately taken by Doubelday without so much as a spell check. Then off to L.A. where he worked as a security guard protecting outdoor furniture until securing a job teaching at USC during which he also earned an M.F. A. in media before taking off cross-country on one of his motorcycles and started writing bike and car stories as a Staff Editor at Hot Bike, Car Craft,then Easyriders eventually producing two books on the subject.

His feature articles,some 2500 to date, have appeared in nearly 100 U.S. and overseas publications, many with his own original photography. His PR and Marketing projects have included work for Warner Bros., Yamaha, Carnation, Luminent, and Lee Iacocca among others.

In the mix he penned two screenplays, "Cyclone" and "Alienator", two scifi/action low budget films produced by Cinetel and American Independent. "Cyclone" attained the status for some reason of a semi-cult classic, apparently the wild/odd spectrum of actors.

He also began focusing on European WWII history resulting in a massive/obsessive collection of original photos and documents from which magazine features were published as well as two books, Album of the Damned, the latter published in 2008.

His new book, New Images of Nazi Germany- A Photographic Collection concerns the role of the camera as it relates to imagery and ideology in the Third Reich. Published in October 2012 by McFarland & Publishers, it is available in printed and eBook form. Several other non fiction books are in progress with aspirations toward creating documentary films. A novel concerning the downing of Pam Am 103 is also being completed.

His travels have taken him to over 20 countries including the ex-Soviet Union,Japan,and most of Europe as well as the U.S. His interests include researching "high strangeness" subjects, building motorcycles, amateur astronomy, collecting vintage cameras and toy soldiers, and continuing his 30-year study of martial arts inspired by his instructor, the late Sensei Hidetaka Nishiyama. He also greatly enjoys the company of his son Grant, a recent graduate of Boston University.