Background
Cummings, Richard M. was born on March 23, 1938 in New York City. Son of Albert Martin and Betty (Benjamin) Cohen.
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Out of today's headlines, The Immortalists is a cutting edge novel that sends up the life extension movement in all its pretentiousness. Joe Forcione is determined to defeat death. With his vast financial resources and sheer will, he sets out to embrace scientific and mystical possibilities to defy the unenviable fate of all human beings. In the process, he becomes entangled in erotic adventures with beguiling and strong women who lead him to an understanding of the limits of his masculinity and realization that femininity, in all its mysteries, somehow holds the key to human transformation. In fact, he is actually transformed into a woman by mistake, leading to catastrophic consequences, before he is returned to his masculine state. Torn between his wife and his mistress, a Swedish massage therapist, both of whom he impregnates, he plunges into his pursuit of immortality. His encounters with a priest with healing powers, shamans and charlatans, a physician (Dr. Kleist) with arcane medical capabilities to reverse the aging process, and a mad Korean computer scientist, Dr. Duck, capable of replicating human life in the form of virtual reality, propel him into a dizzying Swiftian voyage of life and death from the Hamptons to Zurich, across several continents, as the secrets of life and death are revealed to him.
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Cummings, Richard M. was born on March 23, 1938 in New York City. Son of Albert Martin and Betty (Benjamin) Cohen.
AB, Princeton University, 1959. Juris Doctor, Columbia University, 1962. Master of Letters, Cambridge University, England, 1964.
Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge University, England, 1989.
Associate Breed, Abbott & Morgan, New York, 1964-1965. Attorney advisory Agency for International Development, 1965-1966. Assistant professor University Louisville School Law, 1966-1970.
Partner Ross & Cummings, Southampton, New York, 1971-1973. Lecturer law University Würzburg.I., Barbados, 1973-1974. Associate professor State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1974-1977.
Legislation counsel New York State Assembly, Albany, 1978-1980. Director natural resources Town of East Hampton, New York, 1981-1982. Partner Richard Cummings, Sanford Katz, Ira Kornbluth, Attorneys-at-Law, East Hampton, since 1982.
Of counsel Beatie & Osborn, New York City. Visiting assistant professor Haile Sellassie I U, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1967-1969. Visiting associate professor Southampton (New York ) College, 1970-1971.
Adjunct professor Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, since 1977. Political consultant Richard Cummings Communications, Bridgehampton, since 1979. Professor law Pace University, White Plains, New York, 1987-1995.
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Committeeman Town Democratic Committee, Southampton, 1971-1973. Delegate Democratic National Convention, Miami, Florida, 1972. Chairman, New York State campaign Terry Sanford for President, 1976.
Candidate for United States Congress, Suffolk County, New York, 1980. Fellow National Association Trial Lawyers (honorary). Member Authors Guild, American Society Journalists and Authors,, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American Center, Overseas Press Club, Princeton Club (New York City).
Married Mary Araminta Johnson, August 3, 1965. Children: Benjamin, Orson.