The author, John Daniel Strong, was born in San Diego, California. He has a bachelor of science in history and political science from Weber State University and a master of education in administration and supervision from the University of Houston. He has lived in Texas with his wife, Cathy, for more than thirty years. He has three children—John, Kimberleigh, and Scott—and seven grandchildren.
John Daniel Strong has previously published The Last Muster, a novel that cinemas the Mormon War in Missouri and the character of one misplaced Mormon in the American Civil War, featuring Butch Cassidy’s robbery of the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride, Colorado, in 1889.