Dan Groat

Dan Groat, author of the novels, "A Punctual Paymaster" and "An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy," lives with his wife, Arlene, and their cairn terrier, Digby, near St. Louis. He is an avid sports fan and follows Mizzou football and basketball, St. Louis University basketball, the Cardinals, the Rams, the Blues, and the DeSoto Dragons. When he's not writing, he enjoys shooting pool, reading, watching movies, and planting things and watching them grow (including trees, shrubs, flowers, and ideas).

Dan Groat gathered his formal education from the elementary and secondary public schools of DeSoto, Missouri, the University of Missouri, Jefferson College, and Southeast Missouri State University. His non-formal education was accumulated as a newspaper delivery boy, a grass cutter, a lunch ticket puncher, a factory laborer, a quality control technician, a hod carrier, a pool hall assistant manager, a plumber's helper, a rock band manager, a bartender, a secondary math teacher, a furniture delivery man, a cross country coach, a shipping warehouse order filler, a consultant to an educational software company, a help desk person at an insurance company, a college math teacher, a seed merchandiser, a bank courier, and an author. His informal education was collected in group interactions pursuing interests he chose or interests that were chosen for him. The learning continues, intentional or not...

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