What these people were trying to create or re-create here in this new world is beyond me. I can't put myself in their minds or their hearts, but I can sympathize with their struggle for an identity, with their puzzlement, which has troubled Americans from the very beginning - Who are we, where do we fit in, where are we going?

He attended Elmont Memorial High School in Elmont New York and graduated from Hofstra University. Nelson Richard DeMille (born August 23 1943) is an American author of thriller novels. Works
DeMille often uses Long Island as a setting in his novels as in The Gold Coast Plum Island Word of Honor and Night Fall.

Nelson Richard DeMille (born August 23 1943) is an American author of thriller novels. DeMille has also written under the pen names Jack Cannon Kurt Ladner and Brad Matthews.