Born in Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania, Robert was raised in Narberth, a small town, also on the Main Line of the Philly suburbs. He went to Penn State and studied Archaeology. After college, he became a Chef Apprentice at the Hotel Hershey, eventually opening his award-winning bagel shop in Lemoyne, called Bob's Bagels.
Robert began writing early on without publishing but eventually wrote his first Thriller, Fatal Snow, about an archaeologist, Harry Thursday, who uncovers an Inca treasure in the Chilean Mountains. The story ends two years later in the Grand Tetons when Harry must fend off a killing Pimp with a historical past.