Donald Motier was born in 1943 and graduated from college in 1970 with a BA in Philosophy and minor in English. He did post-graduate work in philosophy on Being and Time by Martin Heidegger under the distinguished Professor Dr. Rudolph Fischer of Vienna. Following his academic career, Mr. Motier worked in the library field first as an interlibrary-loan librarian at a public library from 1970-76 and as a genealogy/local history and reference librarian at a state library from 1977-1993 when he retired to follow his true passion, writing. In 1969 while in college, he began writing prose-poetry in the style of Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac publishing his first collection Faces of Being in 1971. After publishing several more collections, he began writing short stories, novels, two works of historical fiction or "faction": Mystic Chords of Memory: The Lost Journal of William Wallace Lincoln followed by a sequel Saving Lincoln: Mystic Chords of Memory Part 2 and two travel books.