Mr. Klein was raised in New Jersey, attending college there while earning degrees in chemistry, biology and a Marketing MBA with a minor in English. Over the course of his career, Dean bgan work with Merck & Co.'s New Leads Discovery group, an elite team of medicinal chemists whose sole purpose was to develop new drugs for human and veterinary health care. From there he commenced employment for M&T Chemicals Co. in which he examined new business opportunities to facilitate the development of corporate growth leading to higher sales and profits. In this work, Dean was able to contribute significantly to increased sales in a variety of industrial markets. One day, while at work in his office, he answered an unexpected phone call from the manager of Human Resources of Stanford Research Institute (a major and world famous contract research consulting firm) in Menlo Park, California. Unbeknownst to him, he had been recommended to SRI by someone in industry with whom he'd spoken in the course of his work as an individual capable of undertaking complex business research projects in the fields of specialty chemicals, specialty materials, advanced materials, high-purity metals and thin-film coatings, among many other technical materials fields for clients worldwide. That work led him to construct numerous reports for senior managers of Fortune 500 firms as well as some of the largest materials science companies in Europe and Japan.
Dean returned to California years later to become the Director of Marketing for a global minerals company before retiring in 2006. Subsequent to his retirement and having written professionally for years for very educated, well compensated and sophisticated audiences, he chose to use his writing skills for his own pleasure. Possessing a vivid imagination, Dean eagerly chose to construct novels in the genre of Stephen King and, surprisingly, to also pen Christian Thrillers for readers that enjoy eerie to adventurous stories of faith not unlike the great and classic movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, the movie that inspired him to create his book that featured Christ who was pervasively present in the story but not in a way anyone would ever imagine. Raiders was a God thriller, given the film revolved around the frenzied and highly entertaining search for the lost Ark of the Covenant. Inspired by this excellent film, Dean produced a story entitled, The Prophecy Cave, that rivals/even exceeds the scale of Raiders. Two years after self-publishing his book (four years to write), he received a phone call from Simon Swart, the Executive Vice President of 20th Century Fox, who raved about the tale, letting him know it was movie-worthy as it featured completely original content, many thought-provoking scenes and startling scenes that came to scare the world and especially the deeply worried Vatican where prelates would shout at prelates. The Prophecy Cave is.a (three-part) book of tremendous cinematic appeal that, according to Simon, could cost as much as $200 million to convert to a screenplay/movie. Simon added such an amount was too much to spend at this time since the studio would have to produce domestic ticket sales of at least $500 million to justify the expenditure of such a sum. The story rests with Disney's creative development group (having acquired Fox approximately seven years later). Sony Pictures is also aware of this novel.
Dean was married for 39 years to a British woman who was visiting her mother in the U.S. At that time Diana worked for London couturier, Christian Dior, while her father was employed by Standard Oil. Mrs. Klein passed away in December of leukemia.
The author's hobbies, beyond writing, include his collection of older British sport cars that were new thirty to fifty years ago. He also enjoys video games, tropical plants, red wines, dark chocolate, stylish women, the South Seas and his best of house wire hair fox terrier. Exercise consumes several hours each day of Dean's time.
