Peter K. Connolly (ptrcon@fidnet.com)
was introduced to submarines in the early '40s when he first saw oil-soaked
beaches in New Jersey, the result of Nazi U-Boat attacks on allied shipping.
Twenty-five years later he found himself delivering nuts, apples and newspapers
to Admiral H. G. Rickover aboard Navy nuclear submarines on weekend builder's
sea trials.
A native of suburban New York City, Connolly attended
the University of Notre Dame, Marquette University and Stonehill College.
He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Journalism. He was Manager
of News and Information at General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division in Connecticut
before moving to St. Louis where he retired in 1992 as Corporate Director
of Public Affairs.
Since then he has been a Communications consultant, a columnist for several
St. Louis area newspapers, and writer for the St. Louis Baseball Cardinals
magazine and other publications. He currently designs and maintains web
sites for a dozen or so commercial and institutional clients in Missouri
and Illinois.
An ex-Marine, he is now a resident of land-locked rural Missouri and confines
most of his underwater interests to bass fishing and retrieving Precepts
and Pro V-1's.
"The Last Slider" is his first novel.
His second novel, "When Shadows Fell at Notre Dame,"
has just been released.
It is available at http://www.NDShadows.com,
Barnes
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Borders,
or any on-line bookstore. | 
