ARTIST AND AUTHOR

Paul Hosch grew up on the Jersey Shore many years before it became infamous on MTV. In college, he majored in journalism and wrote a column for the campus newspaper before getting kicked out for minor offenses. Disillusioned with the conservative nature of the education system, he migrated to Haight-Ashbury in 1969 and caught the last moments of the Hippie Era.

In Mr. Hosch’s first illustrated e-book, Jersey Goes West, he describes the music scene at the Fillmore West, an unpleasant visit to the Woodstock festival, and how he witnessed a man getting killed at the Stone's disastrous concert at the Altamont Racetrack.

After abandoning the hippie scene for yoga, the author was taught meditation by an Indian swami who took him on a cross country tour as his personal assistant. He accompanied the yogi to Yale, Harvard, and University of Pennsylvania where his mentor was designated a "Scholar in Residence”.

When they returned to the West Coast, the swami convinced the young man to sell his beloved VW Bus and buy a plane ticket to India to study with his guru. Mr. Hosch eventually agreed to go. He was 23 years old at the time and had never been outside the country before.

In his second illustrated e-memoir, Undercover in India, the author tells how he lived at his guru’s ashram for a year, went underground during martial law, and climbed the Himalayas in search of a mysterious one-armed yogi. After leaving India, Mr. Hosch returned to the U.S. and graduated from Philadelphia College of Art.

In 1976, he moved to Honolulu and worked in Wakiki Beach as an artist for twenty years. Following the events described in his third e-memoir, The Fingernail King, he took a six year gig teaching writing and design at the University of Hawaii. He also taught portrait drawing at the Honolulu Academy of Art for another six years.

During that time, his painting was featured in the Academy Award winning film, The Descendants starring George Clooney. Mr. Hosch moved to Florida in 2009 to take care of his aged mother. He has been practicing meditation and yoga for fifty-five years.