An inexperienced teenager leaves his suburban California home to visit his brother in San Francisco, and dives into the Hippie Movement of the sixties.Establishing himself in the Flower Power scene of the Haight Ashbury District, he becomes a bell-bottomed entrepreneur, running a unique used garment business from the back of an old, brightly painted step van, becoming known only as Jester.Heavily involved in the sex, drugs and rock and roll lifestyle, he meets fascinating characters like Janis Joplin and Timothy Leary and has many amazing experiences, until he burns out on the whole scene. Leaving the bay area, He searches for a different direction.Jester moves in and out of different lifestyles, becoming a road nomad, traveling, over the years, from the mountains of Big Sur all the way to Alaska, with many stops along the way. In Jester: Memoirs of a Retired hippie, Jester tastes love and loss, joy and deep sorrow, and the magic that still exists in the world, evolving into a unique and wise older man.

Born in New York State in 1947, Warren Troy has always been an avid outdoorsman. Even as a youth, his favorite activity was spending time at his family's cottage in the Catskill mountains, exploring the woods.As an adult, he moved to Alaska and has had a love affair with the state ever since, taking part in the wonderful outdoors: hunting, fishing, and homesteading. In the 1990s, he and his wife Joyce lived for five years as full-time homesteaders in the bush northeast of the head of Kachemak Bay. They built their cabin from native spruce with a hand-held Alaskan MK III chain saw mill—and lived off the land.Warren is a member of the Alaska Writers Guild, and Jester is his second published book. He and Joyce live in their home-built cabin in Willow, Alaska, 70 miles north of Anchorage, surrounded by spruce and birch.