Paul E. Breer

I grew up in a small, quiet upstate New York town, then went on to get my B.A. (1952) and Ph.D. (1960) from Harvard. In subsequent years I taught or conducted research at the University of Wisconsin, Cornell University and Dartmouth Medical School. Between university appointments I conducted a private psychotherapy practice, first in Hanover, New Hampshire and later in Boston Mass. I now live high in the Colorado Rockies (7400 feet above sea level) with my cat Kwatz who makes a cameo appearance in several of my books.

Since retiring I have spent most of my time writing books, essays and music. Some of my early books explore questions of value (sociology) and free will (philosophy); a more recent effort focuses on music and the fine arts. My two essays draw on personal experience and offer analyses of humanistic psychology and Eastern philosophy.

Classical music has been one of my greatest loves ever since college. With the invention of computers and synthesizers I finally got around to writing some of my own. Some of my musical compositions feature full orchestra or orchestra and chorus; others are written for smaller ensembles including classical guitar. I now have six CD's of my own music, all of which are available at my website PaulBreer.com.

In the last few years writing fiction has risen to the top of my priorities. "Tashi" represents my most recent venture into literature, the previous being "Illusions of the Heart", a book-length work consisting of two novellas exploring the liberating but potentially dangerous world of internet romance. Still in the planning stages is "The Reluctant Savior", a novel about a young man who discovers he has the ability to heal but refuses to accept the divine status others insist on giving him.

Life has never been this full.