Ellert L. Anderson, or Sparky as he has been known all his life, grew up in the town of Bristow, Nebraska. Later, he attended Iowa State University, where he graduated with a degree in electrical engineering. After a few brief stints elsewhere, Sparky settled down at Hughes Aircraft in Los Angeles, where he worked for most of his twenty-five years as a general night superintendent. He also served as vice-president and educational chairman of Hughes Credit Union for ten years and as a president of the Hughes Management Club.

In college, Sparky was elected to membership in the Inkhorn Society, the Guard of St. Patrick, the Engineering Council, Sigma Delta Chi, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and Cardinal Key, and was the editor of The Iowa Engineer. Later he served a few years as biographical editor of the Bridge of Eta Kappa Nu. He has also served as a deacon in both the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches.

Sparky is also a past president of the Los angles alumni chapter of Eta Kappa Nu (honorary electrical engineering society) and of the Los Angles branch of the Iowa State University Alumni Association.

Long interested in the question of death, Sparky has spent the past fifty years researching the related literature and the incidents of death that have crossed his path in the intervening years with the idea of someday writing this book.

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