Life is not going too well for Rod, something his Jewish parents may not have anticipated when they gave him the name Herodotus. Polly!: A Comic Novel of Hope and Blasphemy.A naïve and inexpert seed finally received benefit of mature loam, and from it his first novel - Leiyatel’s Embrace - soon blossomed. The unearthing of a late seventies manuscript - during loft improvements - resurrected an interest in storytelling, and one thing led to another. The catalyst of a corporate takeover led to a change of career, and the opportunity to return to the arts. Consequently, after graduation, twenty years were spent implementing technologies for mainframe computer design and manufacture, and being a Group IT Manager for an international print company. Torn between the arts (a natural and easy artist) and the sciences (struggled with maths), youthful rationality favoured science as a living, leaving art as a pastime pleasure. Manchester retained its lure and has thereafter been his hometown. In addition to getting a degree in electronics, he also had the good fortune of meeting Maureen (Kit) Medley - subsequently his partner and recent Editor. Mid-way through the 1970s, he found himself lured away by the bright lights of Manchester to attend Salford University. Clive Johnson was born in the mid-1950’s in Bradford, in what was then the West Riding of the English county of Yorkshire.
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