Lawrence Cromwell

Lawrence Cromwell Bio

I was born in Coral Gables, Florida, in 1950. Other than on vacations,

I never left the state until 1983, when I became a Peace Corps Volunteer

teaching math, science, and even English In Kenya, East Africa. My

experience in Kenya opened a whole new world of self-reliance and personal

discovery for me and I also got married in Nairobi to Suzanne Cromwell, whom

I had met in Miami at a party shortly before dating for a few months and then proposing

marriage and leaving for Africa. She flew over from the U.S. and we had a civil ceremony

about 39 years ago.

After finishing my two-year tour, Suzanne and I returned to the States. I then

started teaching math at an inner-city school in West Palm Beach, and Suzanne

worked as an architect. After five years of teaching in the States, I started

working for DoDEA, teaching the dependent children of deployed U.S.

soldiers in South Korea for six years and then Belgium for eight additional years. After

finishing my overseas career, I worked for eight years at Quantico Middle/High

School until I retired from full-time teaching to live in Hobe Sound, Florida

where I taught and tutored students in math, chemistry, and physics on a part

time basis.

During my teaching years, I would sometimes get ideas for stories and just

start writing them down. Deciding to monetize these stories pushed me to

publish some of them on Amazon Kindle, where I still have a few of my best

works on sale.        

As mentioned earlier, I began writing in a rather circuitous way. Growing up,

I had never considered myself to be a writer due to the fact that I hated reading,

couldn’t stand literature, and had no reason to believe that I could ever be a

journalist or writer of any kind. I never had the luxury of studying anything that

didn’t have to do with learning and teaching math and science. But once I started

writing, I found out that I enjoyed it (sans the English teachers standing over me

and disapproving of my grammar and other writing efforts). Now, I have published a

number of short stories and I published my first novel, Seven Manipulated Minds in March

of 2023. Which proves to anybody who thinks they can’t write that they should try once

again.

Go get it!