Lane Carnes was born in Independence, Missouri but claims to be Puerto Rican since his formative years were spent in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His parents Nat and Connie immersed Lane and his sister René in Julio Séllez Sola and Sotero Figueroa, two Spanish public schools in Villa Nevárez, a suburb of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Lane was the only American with blonde hair and blue eyes in these Puerto Rican schools from the third through the ninth grades where "fighting and proving one's machismo, among the boys, was a sport during those memorable junior high year and freshman years. He gained the right to be nicknamed "Carnetoro," which translate to "Bull Meat" since Carnes means meat. After working on a PhD at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas in Hispanic Literature for a second time in the Fall 2008-Spring 2009 with outstanding grades of As and Bs, he discontinued his studies for political reasons. He was discredited for his conservative analysis of the literary works he explored, researched, and wrote about. Higher education across the United States and across the world dwell in the hypocrisy of a fake intellectualism of socialism and liberalism. He exchanged his fists and "nicle-plated belt buckle" depicted in his pseudo-flow of conscious memoir Ensimismamiento for his poetic pen with his two Spanish and English poetry books: The Arches Prism or La prisma del arco and Voces internas / Internal Voices. The author also wrote two books of philosophical, social-cultural, and historical essays: A Jar of Clay, The Art of Balancing; now, a compilation of short stories in Spanish and English Seeds in a Time Capsule / Semillas en una cápsula del tiempo.