R.A. Horne was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts on March 10, 1929. He completed his undergraduate degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and continued at the University of Vermont earning a Master's of Science in Chemistry. He went on to receive a Master's of Arts in Philosophy from Boston University, his doctorate in Chemistry from Columbia University, and then a law degree from Suffolk University Law School. He also pursued his interest in art, attending School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, San Francisco Art Institute, and a school operated by the University of Arizona in Florence, Italy. Horne published under the pseudonym, Blaise Bulot. He self-published two novels Dark Waters, 1993 and Starr-lyte, 1996. Of the approximately 100 short stories he has written, a dozen have been published in anthologies. Bulot has also written poetry and reviews of gay nonfiction. As of 2005 he split his time between residences in the Boston South End and New Hampshire. Kikel, Rudy. "one of US." Bay Windows, June 02, 2005., 12, LGBT Life with Full Text, EBSCOhost (accessed October 8, 2014).