After a three-year tour of duty with the army, Hathaway studied the social sciences in North America and Europe, earning a bachelor’s and a master’s degree. He traveled the world for the next two years visiting twenty-five countries on five continents. Then settling into his writing, he authored several books, including works of philosophy, psychology, ecology, novels, short stories, screenplays, poems, epic verse, and the retelling of The Odyssey in heroic couplet. He has also written scholarly papers, articles, an Elizabethan stage play, and even the original libretto, lyrics, and melodies of a full-length classical, operatic musical featuring twenty-seven new songs. In his free time, he sometimes paints and draws. Some people feel that his graphite portrait of Lord Nelson may be one of the better likenesses of Nelson. Hathaway has been an active wildlife conservationist for several years, focusing on protecting elephant herds in Sub-Sahara Africa. He has a small yet busy wild bird sanctuary at his home in the United States, hosting over twenty-eight species of wild birds.