Steve Kates, a native New Yorker residing in Florida for the past twenty-five years, came to writing after a lengthy career in the advertising agency business in New York and vario...view moreSteve Kates, a native New Yorker residing in Florida for the past twenty-five years, came to writing after a lengthy career in the advertising agency business in New York and various corporate positions in Florida, retiring in 2000 as chief operating officer of Fit America Inc. He then returned to his first love, writing, and was a film reviewer and feature writer for the Boca Raton Observer. He is a board member of the Institute for Learning in Retirement in Boca Raton, where he also teaches a seminar course in memoir writing.
Kates and his wife, Linda, have two married children and four grandchildren. They reside in Boca Raton, where they enjoy family, travel, tennis, and art/antique collecting.view less