Growing up in suburban Little Rock, Arkansas, Benjamin J. Kirby dreamed of being a novelist. As a teenager he virtually inhaled all the classic Stephen King books, one after the other.
“And I thought, this is what I’m going to do,” Kirby remembers. “I want to be Stephen King.”
That’s not exactly how it all went down. Kirby carved a career for himself in politics, working for the Clinton administration’s two terms in Washington, D.C. in various capacities, and then for St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman. He was the Kriseman administration’s Communications Director for eight years…