Patrick Finegan is the prize-winning author of Cooperative Lives and Toys in Babylon. He was born during the second half of the Eisenhower administration and graduated during the Carter and Reagan Administrations from Northwestern University and the University of Chicago Law School and Graduate School of Business. Before turning to fiction, Mr. Finegan worked more than thirty years in law, corporate finance, and management consulting. He has a wife and grown daughter and lives in the New York metropolitan area. He is a devoted student of foreign languages and is an avid fan of foreign language apps.