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About the Book

About the Author

Peter Batke was born in Vienna, Austria in 1947 and moved to North Carolina at the age of 10. Secondary School in Raleigh was followed by a long student life at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill: BA ’68, MA ’71 and PhD in 1979 with a dissertation on the modern Austrian novel. After some post-graduate work in Vienna, a soft-money job in New York and a stint as a roofer in Philadelphia, Dr. Batke worked at Duke, Johns Hopkins and Princeton in the brand new field of computer based educational technology, specifically, computing for the humanities: literature, history, languages, art and music. Dr. Batke left Princeton in 2001 and moved to North Carolina to care for his ailing mother. After the death of his mother, Dr. Batke accepted a position a Cambridge University to make a web interface for a database of illustrated Persian manuscripts and is currently working on several concurrent writing projects.