Born in Paris in 1937, W. E. Gutman is a retired journalist and author of 20 books. The former international editor of the late-great futurist magazine, OMNI, he was appointed U.S. editor of Science in the USSR, the official publication of the Moscow-based Soviet Academy of Sciences. He co-founded a now-defunct military intelligence journal surveilling the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. He served briefly as a press attaché at Israel's Consulate General in New York and later reported from Central America from 1994 to 2006. He holds a master's degree from the Paris University School of Journalism. He paints in his spare time.