Stephen McGeegan, aka Stephen Quigley, the newly minted author of “Nations Apart” has lived a life as varied and interesting as many of his characters.  Born in Los Angeles in 1952, Stephen went on the road at the age of 19, traveling across the United States and extensively throughout Europe. In a forty year career span, he has taught soldiers for the US Army in Germany, worked construction in California, and settled in the far north of British Columbia where his career path has led him to surveying, log building, self-publishing, bartending, gold mining and twenty-five years of forest fire management.  He and his Argentinean wife, Silvana, own and operate a lodge and spend their time between homes in southern Argentina, where the Andes meet Patagonia, and in northern British Columbia, where the Pacific watershed meets the Arctic.  They have four children between them and three grandchildren.