F. Eugene Barber was born on a sharecrop farm in Iowa at the start of the Great Depression and first attended a one-room rural school with ten other students ranging from the first to the eighth grade. He worked on farms and ranches until joining the Air Force at age seventeen just after graduating from high school. During the Korean War, he was an engine mechanic and Crew Chief on the atomic bomb carrying B-36. Later, former Staff Sergeant Barber used the GI Bill to earn an AS in Engineering, a BA, and an MBA.
He has been writing fiction novels for the last seven years and has published ten. Earlier he published several short stories and contributed to several localized county histories in the Midwest.
Mr. Barber has worked and traveled around the world—North, South, and Central America, the UK, Europe, Polynesia, Russia and Russian Siberia, Finland, South Africa, mainland China, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Turkey, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
He has been employed in the Aerospace and Defense industry most of his adult life and now consults on FAA and DOD projects. Mr. Barber worked for two years at the Birk Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB, on the Airborne Laser program. He is now working as a consultant for a large defense company in Minnesota. He and his wife, Yvonne, lived for a time in Yorkshire, England while classified as Status of Forces. He was a contract consultant for a special program on a Joint Operations Base. He and his wife presently reside in Nevada.
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