Sidney Dutton Hoover was born before the dawn of the atomic age, recovered from polio, taught social dancing and college English, cooked in diners, fixed up and built houses, and provided several decades of probation services for Seattle Municipal Court. He was awarded a Master of Arts in English Literature by the University of Washington in 1968. He enjoys vicarious grand-parenting, walks over 10,000 steps a day, and releases original rock songs as Unmires.