Re: [math-fun] Author! Author!

I've established at least that Malcolm Ellis Lines (born 26 Apr 1936) is a real person/author/patent-holder associated with AT&T and apparently living in Millington NJ. The self-published Stephen P. Richards version of "A Number for your Thoughts" gives a post box in New Providence NJ, not far away. Internet "name farms" (which I frequently use for genealogical research) suggest that there is a (born ~1969) Stephen P. Lines in Malcolm's family. Could be coincidental of course but it is suggestive.