Author Biographies

2008,In January.Pvc Inflatable Swimming Pool MinnPost partner with KYSP-TV to send John and photojournalist, Eric Bowen, to Baden, Iraq for two weeks. Thei were imbed with the 2-147th assault helicopt battalion of the Minnesota Nation Guard. The articl he wrote can be found on hi website. He sai he still think of himself as a journalist. Asked why he want to go, he says, "I'm go to Iraq becaus I'm interest in the war there, and becaus I'm interest in the cultur dynam in the Middl East, where I have a good number of friends."

also a student at the Univers of Iowa. Thei have two children,He graduat from Univers of Iowa with a degre in American Studi and went back in 1970-1971 to get a master s degre in journalism. He wa marri in 1966 to Susan Lee Jones. Emili and Roswell. Thei move to Minnesota in 1978. Susan di in 2007.

John did a tour in the Unite State Army in the 1960 s station in Korea where he work as a newspap editor. From 1968 to 1990 he ha work as a journalist on variou publications. He wa name as finalist to win a Pulitz Prize in 1980 for hi studi of the Nativ American in Minnesota and North Dakota. He actual won the Pulitz Prize in 1986 for a seri of articl about the farm crisi in the Midwest.

he wa publish as an author of two nonfict book and mani book of fiction. He still dabbl in journal from time to timeA ft burn-out from work the crime beat for twenti years..

he can be found at hi home in Minnesota. He ha mani vari interest includ archaeology,John doe extens travel for book tours. While not travelling. fishing, hunting, karat ha a black belt , and photographi amongst other things. He onc cano solo from the mouth of the Mississippi in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.

Egypt,H ha also travel in Turkey. Jordan and Israel. He ha been involv in archaeolog dig in Beth Shean in Israel and Tel Rehov near the Sea of Galilee. He wa the photograph and a major financi backer.