M. Francis Schmidt is a lifelong student of history and anthropology. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Edinboro and his graduate work in geology at Kent State ...view moreM. Francis Schmidt is a lifelong student of history and anthropology. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Edinboro and his graduate work in geology at Kent State University under a grant from the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Through the course of his life he has experienced many extremes: homelessness and great wealth as well as being a world record holder athlete and published poet. He is one of the few people ever to compete on the world stage in both poetry and a international sport in the same year.
Never one to fit neatly into any particular social mold, the author has had work published on weightlifting, nutrition as well as the roots of the militancy and religious imperialism of Islam.view less