At a time when small Cokes cost a nickel and malts were 30, 35 or 40 cents–depending on how thick you wanted them, Len worked behind his father’s drugstore’s soda fountain to earn his weekly allowance. It was a time of Dick Clark’s American Bandstand, baseball games on the radio, and always Bonanza on the small TV behind the counter on Sunday nights.

On that small TV Len and his dad watched Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald one Sunday morning after church. JFK’s last living day, the Friday before, happened to be November 22, 1963, Len’s birthday. The weekend felt like an earthquake, shaking even his treasured memory of seeing Warren Spahn pitch his 300 th win on a hot August night only two summers before.

Luckily, when the British Invasion happened a few months later, Len discovered his life-long passion for music and songwriting. Lingering echoes of the 60s can be found throughout Len’s published works.

After studying music at St. Olaf College, Len forged a career of producing, managing and performing with live entertainment acts throughout the United States and Canada. Then, in 2015, he turned his creative talents to storytelling. His “musician-driven” stageplays came first. Multiple volumes of his Short Stories for Movie Mavens followed. In 2022, Len published his first novel, Three Strikes, You’re Dead, a tale of an amateur umpire engulfed in an international conspiracy.

You can find Len’s engaging stories about ordinary people in extraordinary situations on both Amazon and Barnes and Noble’s websites. His first audiobook, The Golden Flyswatter is now available on Spotify.