Earl Ernest Guile is the author of Antarctic Collapse (a novel about climate change), Secrets to a Richer Life(illuminating interviews with citizens from five continents) and Secrets from the Cradle to College Admission at MIT and the Ivy League (a parent student guide to college admissions). Born in Florence, S.C., he grew up during the civil rights struggle and successfully protested the segregation of the Florence Public Library, opening it for all citizens. He is a former university professor who studied at Morehouse College, Bowdoin College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California at Berkeley, and at Harvard University with degrees in biology, dental medicine and public health epidemiology. He has pursued cell biology research at Oak Ridge National Laboratories and at the University of Helsinki. He later took the risk to pursue work in the Third World, first in Cameroon and subsequently in Hong Kong, Suriname, and Saudi Arabia. He worked in Operations Crossroads Africa where he helped to build a community center in Bali, Cameroons. The author was formerly a , oral health researcher-epidemiologist, and dental practitioner. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Public Health. He also served as Chairman, Board of Trustees at the American International School in Riyadh. He was a faculty consultant on a project to establish King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), a new research science and technology university in the Middle East. He is a member of Toastmasters International. The writer has a fervent belief that advances in science, technology, and universal educational access should be focused like a laser beam to eliminate world poverty, disease, and ignorance, as well as, solve critical problems of energy, clean water, food production, nutrition, and environmental stewardship. His hobbies include Tai Chi, longevity studies, sailing, biking, swimming, resistance training, public speaking, ancient and recent genealogy, the singularity, future studies, and great conversation. He presently resides in Portland, Oregon.
