P. F. (Paul Frederick) Kluge has made Gambier, Ohio his home since 1987. He was born in New Jersey and first came to Gambier in 1960 to attend Kenyon College where he graduated with highest honors in English. He earned his Master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago before joining the U.S. Peace Corps in 1967. He served in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands where he edited The Micronesian Reporter, a quarterly magazine. After the Peace Corps, P.F. worked as a staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal, before becoming an assistant editor at Life magazine.

In 1975, he was the director and drafter of the Preamble of the Constitution for Federated State of Micronesia and since 1999 he has been a contributing editor for National Geographic Traveler.

Kluge is the author of seven acclaimed novels and two works of nonfiction. Two of his works have been made into films, Eddie and the Cruisers, based on his novel of the same name, and Dog Day Afternoon grew out of an article he wrote with Thomas Moore for a Life magazine article.

Gone Tomorrow is set in a small college in Ohio. It was selected as one of NPR’s best books of 2008 and one of the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s top ten fiction titles of 2008.

P.F. Kluge website