Born in Brooklyn and raised in Levittown, Paul Manton is a freelance writer, amateur historian, and avocational entomologist active in a number of cultural, historical, and scientific institutions in the area. Between 1997 and 2004, he was a contributing editor with the Long Island Forum Magazine. Manton is currently employed as a museum docent/administrator and lives in Levittown with his wife and ballroom dance partner, Cathy, and their daughter, Elizabeth Regina.