Peter Silverman attended Reed College, Indiana University, Drexel University, and Spring Garden College. Careers have included librarian, archivist, factory manager, and computer programmer. He has performed with semi-professional dance companies, and helped found a local chapter of Families With Children from China. He has lived in Philadelphia and its suburbs since early childhood, and has two daughters. Hancock Hill is his second self-published novel. His first, Acting Obsessed (www.actingobsessed.com), is available on Amazon.