Anthony R. Mills was born at Bowing Field Air Force Base, Washington D.C. to an Army Motor Pool Sergeant who was stationed at the Pentagon. He attended for three and a half years the parochial school and parish, "Our Lady Queen of Peace," located in South-East Washington. After that his education, where he was a lackluster student, continued with military dependent and public schools. - He eventually graduated from Sonoma State College located at Rohnert Park, California. His mother was native of Budapest, Hungary who escaped on the last train that departed the Hungarian Capital hours before the arrival of the Soviet Army. While thus dislocate in Bavaria, Germany his parents met. Mills is the third of his parents four children. After a European tour, the family relocated to Vallejo, California where he resides to this day. Mills is a long term employee of Military Sealift Command that allows him, during long independent transits, the isolation and solitude that is required to write.