On June 4, 1946, Thomas Frank Raucina was born in Kenosha. He is an American television writer and novelist.
To help finance college, he wrote books simply to earn money- books that he didn't even want recognition for. He moved up to mainstream publishing with a take-off on ""The Happy Hooker: My Own Story,"' by Xaviera Hollander, called ""The Happy Hustler,"' which he wrote entirely in one weekend. The novel ended up being successful, selling three million copies and spawning three sequels.He returned to life as a novelist and moved to Palm Springs. It was not difficult for him to get back into the swing of writing thriller novels, with ""Snow Angel"' being published shortly after in 1996. He has since written ""Hidden Agenda"' (1998), ""Secret Weekend"' (1999), ""The Madman's Diary"' (2000), ""Never Forget"' (2002) and ""Deep Freeze"' (2005).