RANDOLPH HOBLER is, in no particular order, a perpicacious marketer; a fastidious author; a voracious reader; a tenacious researcher; a conscientious thinker; a curious observer; an industrious composer; a gregarious world traveler; a punctilious musician; and a prodigious anthemologist.

 

He served in the Peace Corps in Libya from 1968--1969 in the Berber village of Al Gala, in the Nefusa Mountains, south of Tripoli, with no running water or electricity. 50 years later he wrote a highly-praised collective memoir (with in-depth interviews of 101 of his follow volunteers) entitled 101 Arabian Tales: How We All Persevered in Peace Corps Libya (available on Amazon). He's published 24 articles nine films and did the book, music and lyrics to the musical The Spirit of River City.

 

He once met Albert Einstein, who lived half-mile from his home in Princeton. This meeting inspired Invisibilities. To make this biography come alive, he

conducted hundreds of interviews and extensive correspondence with people who encountered Einstein, or the children and grandchildren of those people, using genealogical tools. While he doesn't play violin himself, he does play

guitar, bass, piano and drums.

 

A graduate of Andover and Princeton, Hobler has spent 45 years in national and international advertsing, marketing and consulting for 142 clients. He is fluent in French and conversational in Spanish and Arabic.