Paul Springsteen is someone that grew up in a medium sized town in Texas located in the united states.

He went into the military upon graduating high school.  Though it didn't last long he did get an honorable discharge because of medical reasons.

After this he went to the local college of his home town.  There he got a master's degree in physics.

Due to illness he had a hard time in the job market before he discovered the joys of writing and wishes to spend his time writing stories for the forseeable future.

His stance on writing though is that he doesn't write to whatever is the it thing in the market.  Instead he has a particular way the story is supposed to go in his head and follows that.  So the reader should be aware that even killing the protagonist and having the bad guy win is a possible way things could happen in the story in the future.