REX FROST was born in the late 1960s and was raised in the Midwestern United States. The religious backdrop of the author’s youth was Separate Baptist and Southern Baptist, though he is now a nondenominational Bible Christian. The author holds bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and chemical engineering and a doctor’s degree in physical chemistry, and he has worked in the field of microprocessor fabrication research and development. The author’s earliest publications are technical, comprising epitaxy modeling, atmospheric photochemistry, and molecular spectroscopy journal articles, as well as various semiconductor lithography patents.