Stephen Saperstein Frug was born in New York City and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was educated at the Commonwealth School and studied philosophy at Harvard and history at Tufts and Cornell. He is the author and illustrator of 'Happenstance: A Photographic Novel,' and the author of the essay series, 'Attempts' and of 'Retcon: a Mosaic Story in Three Movements.' He lives in Ithaca, New York with his wife and son, where he commits occasional acts of illeism.