Rick Hobbs
Rick Hobbs is a native Georgian who has BS and MS degrees in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MD from Emory University School of Medicine. In 1976, upon graduating from medical school, Rick moved to Maine to become a resident in the Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency. After ten years of solo practice and ten years on the faculty of another Maine-based family medicine residency, Rick came back to Maine-Dartmouth as full-time faculty. In 2006, after a year of monthly commutes to attend classes at the University of Alberta and a three-month sabbatical spent in China, Rick completed training in medical acupuncture. He is board-certified in family medicine and medical acupuncture and continues to practice medical acupuncture and teach family medicine residents at Maine-Dartmouth. He is associate editor of the journal Medical Acupuncture and past president of the Maine Academy of Family Physicians and the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture.
Will-o’-the-Wisp is Rick’s fifth novel, the first (but hopefully not the last) with his younger brother, Mike. His second, The Realm of Misplaced Hearts, was a Maine Literary Awards winner in 2016 for speculative fiction.
Rick lives in Waterville, Maine, with his wife, Elise, and their two dogs, Tilly and Tutte.
Mike Hobbs
Mike Hobbs was born and raised in Griffin, Georgia. He attended Middle Georgia College and received a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Georgia. He began law school at Emory University on the same day that his brother Rick began medical school there. He received his juris doctor degree from Emory in 1975.
Mike worked for the Georgia Attorney General’s Office as a litigation attorney for thirty-two years, serving under three attorneys general. He retired in 2007 as Deputy Attorney General for Special Prosecutions. Thereafter, he entered private practice with the firm of Carothers & Mitchell, LLC, in Buford, Georgia, litigating on behalf of local governments. He retired again at the end of 2015.
He is married to the former Suzanne Drapeau of Pelham, New York, whom he met in France in 1969 when they were study-abroad students at the University of Dijon. Suzie and Mike live at the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains in Big Canoe, Georgia, where Mike is an avid golfer and a doting grandfather.