Born during the same week Animal House was released, Tom Duffy has been on Double Secret Probation ever since. ABBA was also in the top 10 music charts, and Andy Gibb was Shadow Dancing at #1. The author has no problem with either of these things.

Growing up in upstate NY and, later, The Bronx and Manhattan, he has drawn influence from both the humor and underlying darkness of country living, as well as the stark concrete and steel harshness of urban life. Many of his Lower East Side and Hell's Kitchen antics have been fictionalized in his work.

Currently living in the much softer Los Angeles area, he writes through his days and nights in fear of earthquakes, the 80's hair metal fashion resurgence, and driving on the freeways.