In The Sun Also Sets, I never meant to create a character in Roosevelt that would be so hated, questioned or disliked, or just plain scrutinized. Everyone has an opinion on Roosevelt.

My Mother-in-Law is my the biggest fan of my books, and always first to read once one is available. She had asked that I write in second Roosevelt book about the trauma he experienced as a child growing up. But it won't happen. There was no trauma in his life and there never was intended to be. For the most parr, Roosevelt had a normal childhood.

His dislike and comtempt of clients, and maybe human beings in general, had festered for over twenty years and came to a full head at the writing of the book, or in his forties.

However, I only intended to portray in Roosevelt a average man going about his daily job, and as with most of us, there are things we dislike about our jobs, and after twenty years we grow tired of them...that was Roosevelt.