Biographical Sketch
Mr. Schiller was born in Seattle in 1936 to parents of European extraction. His father was a salesman and his mother a writer. Mr. Schiller lived on the West Coast until, as a teenager he joined his mother and stepfather, who was employed as a professor of music at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford Mississippi.
After high school, Mr. Schiller spent four years in the Air Force, mainly in Japan. He then got a degree in Mathematics at the University of Mississippi. After that, he reentered the Air Force and flew in to and out of Viet Nam during the war years. He was married during this period.
After leaving the Air Force, Mr. Schiller worked in the computer industry, mainly at Boeing and in Silicon Valley, for about twenty years. During this period he authored a large number of software programs, some still in use. He also suffered a divorce during this period, and after a long period of studying Carl Jung, remarried.
Mr. Schiller has three children: one natural, one adopted, and one a stepson. All are successful adults; one son is a manager of a fast food outlet and a musician on the West Coast and is married to a Korean. His daughter is married and functions as a housewife and mother and secretary at a large law firm, and the other son is in the Air Force.
After Silicon Valley, Mr. Schiller, for personal reasons, returned to Oxford and the University of Mississippi where he obtained a Master's degree in Computer Science. He then taught at Ole Miss for a while until getting a job as network manager for a research laboratory, where he currently works. Mr. Schiller started his book, Millennium, shortly after the Viet Nam war, as a result of his experiences with divorce and Jungian psychology. He remains married to his second wife and lives on a small farm outside of Oxford.