Born in Harlem New York and raised on the urban streets of South Jamaica Queens. Robert Powell the youngest of three siblings is a natural born writer, with unanimous phenomenal style. His Daily News's published essay, Suicide, won first place, while he moonlighted as a featured freelance writer for the school magazine Kaleidoscope. After completing Paul Schreiber High in Port Washington, NY, he began traveling up and down the east coast, flying for free, living in various cities. His accumulated education is accredited to schools: Five Towns College, Dix Hills NY, NYU located in New York, NY and the New England College of Art and Communications, in Brookline Massachusetts. As a working college student hospitality became a career. Working the forefront's at the hottest hotels from Boston, Massachusetts to New York and New Jersey. His clean cut appearance, and pleasant presentation has awarded him favor to work at Hotels like the Westin, the Sheraton, The Trump, The Royalton, the Dream, Soho House NY just to name a few. Hospitality in itself requires an individual be well rounded, be a people person, and to know how to empathize, with different people everyday. Those interactions which have been the source material for What Have We Become were added to written/verbal testimonials from average Joe's compiled with data over the course of three years. After a long hiatus from writing any literature, Mr. Powell is finally prepared to take the literary marketplace hostage flaunting his literary prowess. Since 2005, Mr. Powell has been the sitting CEO of Luxurious Travel Inc. a profitable concierge member service company providing services and information to people from all over the world. Robert Powell currently lives in Northern New Jersey.