Raj Agrawal is a retired aerospace engineer and a first-generation immigrant from India. He has worked for more than forty years at some of the leading US and British aero engine companies. He has many technical publications and over 30 patents in aviation engineering and has been a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and American Helicopter Society. He was also an adjunct professor teaching a graduate level course on aero-engine design.

He now splits his time between his residences in Florida and Maryland with his Japanese born wife of over four decades as a professional babysitter to his four grandchildren.

Not For Sale! is his debut novel and is the first of a trilogy, the second of which he has already begun working on.