Ken La Salle has a prodigious imagination, and he always wanted to be an artist.

It’s a short bio but here you are on his website full of books and what more is there to say? Pacifist? Humanist? Thinker? Dreamer? The World’s Worst Backpacker? Yes. He’s all these things and he’s also an author.

He penned his first book in 1985, which was then promptly lost by his girlfriend. His life gave him nothing but clear signs he shouldn’t be an artist but that’s really all he wanted. And so, he sang in a couple of bands, acted in a hundred plays, but there came a point where he realized that his path lay with, um, words. Word things. Sentences! That’s it!

A day spent in the pursuit of art is a day in the playground.