 He graduated from Harvard College (B.A., magna cum laude, English, 1972), Boston University (M.A., 1973, creative writing), and the University of Pennsylvania with an M.B.A. in 1979.He was the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's director of direct mail fundraising from 1984 through 1999.His work appeared in "The Missouri Review",

A writer-in-residence fellowship is named for him at the Park School of Baltimore.