Carl H. Mitchell developed a penchant for writing at a young age. His first serious read, at about nine years of age, was Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." Isaac Asimov's "The End of Eternity" and Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" completed the capture.

Born in California, raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and in Lake Worth, Florida, he earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. He worked at IBM for 35 years as an engineer, programmer, and manager.

Carl lives with his wife, Maryann, in Hillsborough, New Jersey, with winters spent in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Along with downhill skiing, he counts among his hobbies the keeping of koi, of which he currently owns more than a hundred. Auditing a year's worth of bills for fish food and pond maintenance has led to the more accurate conclusion that the koi own him.

Carl, an octogenarian, has written several short stories and recently turned to penning dystopian novels. Friendship City, released in 2021, is the sequel to Sundown: Engineering Gives the Devil a Sunburn, published by Covenant Books, is his first novel. The near-future police procedural contains thriller, mystery, espionage, and dystopian aspects. There are also science-fiction touches. He writes to entertain and challenge his readers, offering a powerful message regarding a divided nation that needs to come together to defeat evil.

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