Tom Hopp was born in Seattle, Washington and lived his earliest years in a housing project. Despite a tough start in life, a perfect score on the Graduate Record Exam gained him entry to the Ph.D. program in biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College. He then studied genetic engineering in Nobel Prize winning labs at Rockefeller University and at MIT, and went on to help found the multi-billion-dollar biotechnology company, Immunex Corporation. He created genetically altered animals with human genes and the first commercially successful nanotechnology device, a molecular handle he calls the FLAG.

Tom plays guitar and bass, and has performed onstage with blues legend John Lee Hooker and rock supergroups The Kingsmen and The Drifters. He has lived in Seattle, San Diego and on Manhattan Island. He traces his ancestry to Blackfoot Indians, Prussian hop farmers, African slaves and General Stonewall Jackson. He loves cats, dogs, horses, birds and reptiles, living and extinct, all of which appear in his novels.

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