Hyman, Richard E.

 First time author of FROGMEN, Richard Hyman worked for Jacques Cousteau from 1973 to 1979. Raised in Weston, Connecticut, he earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and business administration from Furman University of South Carolina, where he wrote a weekly environmental column for the school newspaper. During summer jobs, including an internship at NASA, he also attended Yale, Georgetown, and Fairfield Universities, where he studied environmental engineering, non-fiction writing, and business. His career has been in business, primarily in the telecommunications, technology, and software industries.