Earl Babbie is a retired sociology professor. For more than 40 years, his college textbooks on social research methods have been the best sellers in the USA and around the world. T...view moreEarl Babbie is a retired sociology professor. For more than 40 years, his college textbooks on social research methods have been the best sellers in the USA and around the world. They are available in numerous translations. With his retirement from teaching, Earl has chosen to expand his writing activities to short stories, novels, screenplays, and other non-textbooks. He has had a lifelong passion for writing, with his first crime stories written when he was 7 or 8 years old. His aim is to put words together in such a way as to make the reader laugh or cry or both.view less