The Author

Writing under the pseudonym, Adam Pym, the author was born in England in 1948. Educated in Australia, he has a Doctorate in Business Administration lecturing in MBA programs. He's a creative sole, always with a marketing product or service in development, be it lecture formats for his management courses, an advertising technology for use in golf tournaments, or in this case, an historic novel about a business negotiation, inspired by a diary written by his maternal grandmother, Molly Pym (nee Anderson)

Her diary was discovered by the author after her death in 1966. Titled, "My American Experiences" by Molly Isabel Anderson, it was bound  in an embroidered cover. Accompanying the 20,000 words were numerous photographs that she took with her Box Brownie camera, newspaper articles about the likely engagement between Vivien Gould and Lord Decies, dinner menus from her first class return voyage on the Mauritania, and post cards collected during her four week experience.

The author was fortunate to have shown the diary to an historian, who, noting its historic merit had it transcribed.

Sadly, the original tome was lost in a wild bush fire in 1983.

The roots of the Author's family lie in the English landed gentry, and during his upbringing, his grandmother would frequently narrate tales about their history. Among his ancestors were individuals with names like Mosley, Every, Pym, Parry, and Gambier. Various objects d'art associated with these connections now embellish his personal library. As a result, his extensive heritage has greatly influenced the writing of "Decies' Deal."