Kenneth Butcher

Kenneth Butcher is a mystery author from Washington DC though he spent much of his childhood in Ohio. His father was an avid reader of science fiction and while growing up, he read the many stacks of fiction and analog science fact magazines his father owned. From when he could read his father would get the best stories and then pass them on to him which is perhaps what got him hooked on mystery. He grew up in a very conventional home with his father, mother, brother, and two sisters. His grandfather would often spend some time with them. For their summers they would head to his grandmother’s farm in West Virginia where he had tons of cousins to play with. As a teen, he proceeded to study engineering at Ohio State University and after graduating married his high school girlfriend. Soon after, he got a job for a small research lab in Kent in Ohio and then started a family. It was in the small town that they brought up their family before they went to college and left home. Dealing with empty nest syndrome proved to be too much for his wife who opened an ice cream and chocolate shop.