About the Author

Born on February 27, 1955, in Manosque, France, Bernard Martoïa is a French diplomat. While he was assigned to the French Mission to the United Nations in New York in the nineties, he was introduced to an Irish literary club under the leadership of McCourt Brothers. Beguiled by the warm atmosphere, he wrote short stories in English. In 2001, he returned to France where he wrote for a newspaper based in Luxembourg, and then several books in French, notably a three-volume biography of Theodore Roosevelt. Desiring to try his hand writing in English, this book is about his adventures on the Appalachian Trail: "Waffle Print."