Education
He graduated from Wallace Stegner"s Stanford Writing Program.
He graduated from Wallace Stegner"s Stanford Writing Program.
His second set of short stories, The Weary Falcon, was published in 1971 and is based on his experiences in Vietnam "as a free-lance magazine correspondent." Both books are presently out of print. Mayer is also a recreational air pilot with two airplanes, a D17S and a Midget Mustang II, both registered with the Federal Aviation Administration in the city of Santa Cruz, New Mexico. He has also written two non-fiction books on flying, Mountain Flying (1981) and Climb for the Evening Star (1974), both of which are presently out of print.