Todd L. Platek began his life of Sinophilia studying Mandarin in the summer of 1967 at Columbia University in a Ford Foundation program for New York City high school students, and was graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1970. He majored in Chinese Studies at George Washington University and spent several years in Taiwan in the mid-1970’s and early 80’s, and China in the mid-2000’s. He obtained his MBA at Columbia University in 1979 and JD at Brooklyn Law School in 1986, and continues to practice corporate law for American and foreign organizations. When not practicing law or writing, Todd can be found wandering the woods, lakes and rivers in North Georgia with his wife, Elana, and their Labrador Retriever, Selkie.

Todd’s novels, G88 and Rise of the Great Blue Heron, imagine one scenario for how mankind’s problems might be resolved, and the struggle between adherents and opponents of that scenario.