Clues Can Light the Way: A Discovery of Clues for the Greatest Puzzle of All: the Purpose of Life and Beyond

Alan A. Allen, born in New Jersey in 1938, graduated from Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania with a physics degree, spent five years in the U.S. Navy, and continued studies at several universities in physics, petroleum engineering, and oceanography. Allen retired in 2020 as a world-renowned emergency-response coordinator and researcher dealing with marine pollution incidents in nearly 50 countries. He has written hundreds of technical and environmental protection documents, as well as numerous accounts of what he calls the "softer side" of his travels-the interactions with, and lessons learned from, people along the way.