Born in 1950 in Toronto Ontario Canada, Steven Latner is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania and St. Peters College Oxford. After that he joined the rank and file and went to work for 30 years in his family's real estate business where he thrived under the direction of his father Albert Latner. A man of many interests and passions he can be found scouring the shelves of antiquarian book stores, wandering the corridors of museums or hunkered down at dawn in the marshes of southern Ontario waiting for the ducks to fly. He is devoted to his family, Jewish education, philanthropy and poetry.