Award winning author James Duermeyer was born in Iowa and is a graduate of William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa and holds a masters degree in U.S. History from the University of Texas, Arlington. James served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War and continued his Navy career in the Naval Reserves, reaching the rank of Commander. He worked in private industry and the U.S. Government for thirty years in management positions in Human Resources and Labor Relations. He began his writing career after retirement, and is the author of Heroes in Obscurity, Flint Bluff, which received a silver medal in the 2013 Independent Publishers book awards; Market Time Conspiracy, a great story of courage and love; Trail of the Outlaw, a silver medal winner in the Independent Publishers awards, and the first in the series of Marshal Nathan Wolf tales; Singing Creek, another silver award winner, and second in the Nathan Wolf series; and his soon-to-be-released non-fiction, The Capture of the USS Pueblo, the Incident, the Reaction, and the Aftermath (January 2019 release date). He and his wife live in Texas, where he continues to write.