How important is DNA to the development of an individual as opposed to the teachings he or she receives throughout his life?

How important is DNA to the development of an individual as opposed to the teachings he or she receives throughout his life?

George Rothacker addresses this and other aspects of his personal development as he takes you on an artistic journey from childhood to a lifetime in the profession of art, design and creative thinking that has endured for more than 50 years.

The memoir offers the reader a glimpse into the influences of his two artistic parents, and maternal grandmother who strove to elevate her family beyond the working classes. It also provides a portfolio of the development of the artist/writer own work, and the insights into the choices he made, and the people and circumstances who guided him throughout his career.

“Those who are not both blessed and tortured by an artistic nature often don’t understand the jagged and often impractical path taken by a people in the arts,” says the author. “It has taken me to the last segment of my life to see the precipices upon which I walked throughout many of my years, and how fortunate I was to survive and realize the dreams imagined by my maternal grandmother.”

Since 1978, George Rothacker has owned Rothacker Advertising & Design, a firm specializing in creating coordinated marketing campaigns using multimedia, As a writer, photographer and film editor, Mr. Rothacker has published New York in the 1930s, written in conjunction with his gallery show of the same name, and produced many documentaries including America in Black & White and Many Colors, a documentary of discrimination and diversity in the United States, and Words of the Heart, the story of abolishionist Thomas Garrett and Garrett’s great-grand niece Dorothy Biddle James who both fought for human rights throughout their lives. His most recent documentary is a biography of the actor Jimmy Stewart, entitled Always Be Nice to People, commissioned by the James Stewart Foundation and narrated by Stewart’s daughter Kelly. In the course of his career George has received numerous awards and honors for his work locally and nationally with his paintings, designs and illustrations appearing in the New York Illustrators Annual, the Baltimore Sun, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Times, and the Japanese Illustrators Annual. In 2019, George published his first novel, Singularity 1.0, the first of a planned trilogy of books about the future of humans, AI and technology spanning the years from 2029 to 2050. Singularity 2.0, the second in the series, is scheduled for publication in 2020. George lives in Villanova, Pennsylvania with his wife, Barbara, who is also a professional communications designer.