George Maschke was born an raised on Long Island, New York and graduated from Westhampton Beach High School. After a four year stint in the U.S. Army, he moved to Los Angeles, California. Maschke studied at UCLA where he received a bachelor’s degree in Near Eastern Studies followed by master’s and doctoral degrees in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. His dissertation was a study of proverbial and idiomatic language in the context of a modern Persian novel. Since 1997, he and his wife have been living in The Hague, The Netherlands, where I work as a legal translator.
He is the co-founder of AntiPolygraph.org, a non-profit, public interest website dedicated to exposing and ending waste, fraud, and abuse associated with the use of polygraphs and other purported “lie detectors.”