Miles Nilsson Fowler

        I was born in New York City, received my early education in Massachusetts, and attended schools of higher education in Ohio and California, mainly studying the social sciences, psychology especially. I have held various jobs including laundry attendant, substitute teacher, office clerk, and editor.     I live in Charlottesville, Virginia with the love of my life and two quirky but loveable cats. I have written numerous articles (mostly non-remuneratively), including these two papers: "Identification of the Bethany Youth in the Secret Gospel of Mark with other Figures Found in Mark and John," Journal of Higher Criticism 5/1 (Spring, 1998), pp. 3-22. "City on a Hill: An Interpretation of Matt 5:14B/GThom 32." Journal of Higher Criticism 8 (2001): 68-72. "Identification," in particular, relates to my novella, Murder in the Grand Bazaar: An Intellectual Thriller  (2023). Sample of "Murder in the Grand Bazaar" Sample of my yet to be published ...

 Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon  (1999) Neal Stephenson started with the idea of a novel set during World War Two about a fictional Allied military unit traveling around, planting fake intelligence operations so that the Nazis could believe these fake ops were the sources of Allied intelligence about German plans. Why? Because the truth was that the Allies had broken the elaborate and seemingly unbreakable Enigma Code used widely by the German military. The Allies were reading the Nazis' secret messages every day, and were anxious to keep the Germans thinking that their secret code was still secret. So they pretended that they were finding out the Germans' plans by other means. That much was true, and Stephenson's conceit became part of the novel Cryptonomicon , but there was more. Stephenson also wanted to write about the code breakers back at headquarters, and for this subplot, which happily takes over much of the novel, he created my favorite modern fictional character, L...