Henry Hitz taught pre-school for 30 years in the San Francisco public schools and has been organizing parents in Oakland for the past 15 years. He has published stories in Cube Literary Magazine, Instructor Magazine and Moonfish. His first novel, Tales of Monkeyman, won the Walter Van Tilburg Clark Prize. He blogs at http: //whiteknightsf.blogspot.com. Asked if White Knight was autobiographical, he replied, "Yes and no.