Wojciechowski was born in Wilno Poland in 1935, and in 1941 was deported by the Russians, along with his mother and hundreds of thousands of other Poles, to Siberia. He was among the fortunate 10 percent or so who returned from this exile, escaping via the Middle East and eventually reaching Scotland where he began his schooling in 1943. There he completed both Scottish and Polish high school requirements before moving to Canada, where he completed university programs in chemical engineering and chemistry, receiving a PhD in chemistry in 1962.
After spending several years working in the petroleum industry in the United States, he returned to Canada, to teach at Queen's University. As a professor he was active in research involving the conversion of hydrocarbons to motor fuels. He published over 170 papers, and his technical books are on the shelves of many laboratories and offices where kinetic studies of catalytic hydrocarbon conversion are pursued.
During his teaching career Professor Wojciechowski frequently lectured and consulted on the subject of petroleum refining. This work with university, national, and international organizations in more than 40 countries included visits to Brazil, Russia, India, China, Nigeria, South Africa, much of North America, some countries in South America, and most of Europe. On each visit he encountered different social and/or organizational cultures, and made contact with talented, interesting and influential people. This gave him a glimpse of the wide variety of views on subjects of great importance to our future.
As time went on, Professor Wojciechowski's thoughts turned to trying to organize what he had learned about social issues into an understandable whole. He observed that we spend too much time debating and trying to solve problems in isolation, without taking due notice of the past, or of the interdependencies which make perfection impossible in any one case. We live in a forest of interdependent issues, and can only expect to arrive at optimum solutions at best. The Game Must Go On is his first venture into non-technical writing, an application of his scientific training in observation and methods of analysis to social issues.
He is presently writing a Science Fiction history of the world to the year 9000.