Portrait for a book !!

 JOSEPH SORENSEN is by profession an inventor, and by passion a pilot. Holder of several dozen US patents, his most recognizable is surely the Quick-Grip, a one-hand-operable clamp preferred by woodworkers throughout the world. That invention, coming from a virtually unknown inventor, was named ‘Best of What’s New’ by Popular Science Magazine in 1989. During the tenure of the patents, the Quick-Grip product line grossed a billion dollars in sales.
  Born in Sioux City and raised on the other side of the broad Missouri, Sorensen married and helped raise a family like other Nebraska lads. But then something happened. Like a driven man, he left it all behind and moved west; first to the mountains of Montana, then the shores of California.
  Brought finally to his senses by the cold waters of the Pacific, Sorensen decided to become, of all things, a writer. His writings are virtually unknown. But - like the clamp – they may well find a following. We shall see.