DICK SNYDER. b. Taft, California. PhD. University of Colorado, (1966). Retired, 2001. Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Published William S. Culbertson: In Search Of A Rendevous (1982), John F. Kennedy: Person, Policy, Presidency (1988). Autobiography, A Family Passage (2011) and Boomerang (2015). He then began writing mystery fiction, 15 short stories, Jonas Kirk Mysteries: The Collection (2017). His most recent Jonas Kirk adventure, a novella, is found in BINGO (2018). Married and resides in Bakersfield, California.