Bob LiVolsi
Author | Austin, Texas USA |
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With Public Offerings, Bob LiVolsi won the Writers League of Texas prestigious manuscript contest for best thriller. Bob was also a finalist in the same competition for best narrative non-fiction. He started his career as a journalist and was managing editor of the Daily Kent Stater at Kent State University. There, he won the Sears Cong.... more
With Public Offerings, Bob LiVolsi won the Writers League of Texas prestigious manuscript contest for best thriller. Bob was also a finalist in the same competition for best narrative non-fiction. He started his career as a journalist and was managing editor of the Daily Kent Stater at Kent State University. There, he won the Sears Congressional Internship for his investigative coverage of racial tension on campus.
A former high tech executive on teams that took two companies public, Bob applied his experiences in the mercenary world of high-stakes investment to Public Offerings. As a vice president with Hewlett Packard and in his roles in building new companies, he traveled the world, partnering with large corporations, governments and other international organizations. His private support of missions in sub-Saharan Africa and Central America brought him closer to the day-to-day challenges presented by disease, poverty and tyranny. In the mid-1990s, he began online communication with a missionary priest in Sierra Leone where he learned about the horrors there not yet reported in the western press. The priest disappeared and was assumed killed. He became the inspiration for Fr. Jim Reilly in Public Offerings.
Bob lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and two daughters. He is currently writing Courtship of Innocence, the sequel to the Public Offerings series.