Robert G. Lesman

Robert G. Lesman was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1942 and grew up in a middle-class Catholic family. He is the only son of Genevieve Marie Sauer and Robert William Lesman, who divorced in 1946. He attended Ball State University, graduating in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in English Education. After teaching for two years at a public secondary school in Smithtown, New York, he studied at Niagara University, earning a master's degree in English in 1968. He taught English …