Tom Fitzgerald led a Huckleberry Finn childhood along the St. Lawrence River before undertaking formal studies in physics, mathematics, law, industrial management, and English. Tom is the author of Poor Richards Lament: A most timely tale. According to Michael Zuckerman, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, Poor Richard's Lament "joins John Barth's Sot-Weed Factor as the best historical fiction of early America ever written.".