Haydon Rochester Jr

Haydon Rochester, Jr. was born in New York City. From age four until his early twenties he lived in northern Vermont. In the course of his career, Mr. Rochester has written, edited, or rewritten more than 100,000 pages of documents ranging from academic research reports to brochures to instruction manuals to direct mail pieces.

In the mid-eighties, in response to a client’s observation that his contribution to a research report appeared to be largely fictional (a compliment, because it enabled the client to bill for the project), Mr. Rochester began writing fiction as a hobby. His first novel was A Life in Day, written as a dare during National Novel Writing Month. Finding self-publishing to be easy and fun, he followed with Runabout, a much longer mystery novel completed in the nineties. Six more novels, two short story collections, an eBook for walkers, and a book for children followed.

Mr. Rochester believes reading should be a pleasant escape from the cares of an increasingly burdensome world. When he’s not writing, he paints, imagines himself sailing, helps in the garden, and reads—mainly mystery novels and the classics he’s supposed to know but never got around to read.