Some of Ken's favorites are early mornings, the desert in spring, kind and honest people, baseball and other sports played by those who don't take themselves too seriously, most kids, and films he and his Zoe can enjoy together. He earned degrees in literature and writing including the Master of Fine Arts from the Iniversity of Iowa. His books, which include the HIckey Family Crime Novels and the For America Collection, have gotten honored by Poets, Essayists and Novelists, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Private Eye Writers of America.