Earl Ronneberg, author of the trilogy, "Old Friends and Other Stories, Stories of Identity, and Stories of Groups," grew up in Chicago and attended Princeton on a NROTC Regular scholarship before serving three years on active duty on the destroyer USS Hank (DD-702). After the Navy, he earned a Master's Degree from Stanford, married and moved to Hyde Park in Chicago where he completed an MBA (while employed by IBM), and the four year certificate program in Great Books (The Basic Program) both from the University of Chicago. After thirty-two years with IBM, he retired and completed a MLA (Master of Liberal Arts) degree from the University of Chicago. "Work -- A Memoir," his first non fiction… book, chronicles a span of thirty-four years of work spanning the period of May 1964 through June 30th, 1997. "A Love Affair With Flowers Fair" is Ronneberg's second non fiction work. It is a book of 365 poems, mostly sonnets, culled from over 500 poems, and organized by assigning each to an appropriate day of the year. Organized in monthly groups, readers will recognize natural themes -- such as wildflowers, the seasons, plants and birds -- within the month appropriate to their inspiration and genesis. "Black Friends" is a third non fiction work that chronicles what Ronneberg felt to be an often unwritten sequence: reflections on the unique experiences that formed the sensibilities -- with respect to the black race -- of a white boy who grew ip in a privileged and segregated environment, and how, by the grace of circumstance and his own actions, he came to thankfully embrace a dimension of his life that, if lacking, would have made him less complete as a human being. Ronneberg has spent almost all his summers since the age of six at Bass Lake, Pentwater, Michigan. His fiction is strongly indebted to that environment; so is his poetry. "Work -- A Memoir" is principally concerned with his thirty-two years of employment at IBM. In addition to writing he audits classes in history, philosophy, literature, and art at the University of Chicago. Many of his short one-act plays have been incorporated into his stories.