53 Is The New 38: Tales of Indignity and Middle Age (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781517093693)

Michael Turpin is a graduate of literature from Claremont McKenna College and is a native of San Marino, California. He has lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, and New York. A healthcare consultant by day, he indulges his passion for writing as a contributing columnist for magazines, newspapers, and a popular blog that covers a range of topics from popular culture to the travails of modern day parents. He draws heavily on his generation's life experiences and his literary heroes-Erma Bombeck, Woody Allen, David Sedaris, and Bill Bryson-to remind readers that the only normal people we know are those who choose to close their curtains at night. This is his third book. His first two novels, T-Rex By the Tail and Bicentennial Rex, are humorous anthems to the alpha fathers and pragmatic mothers of the Silent Generation and the passing of an age known as "Jurassic" parenting. Turpin lives in New Canaan, Connecticut, with his wife and three teenaged children.