James D. Cummins was born in the North, lived in the South, worked in the West, and Retired in the South. He worked on ships for 13 years to pay his way through college. He earned a BSEE at the University of California in Berkeley, and an MSCS at Santa Clara University while working for 30 years in Electrical Engineering. He had three mystery novels produced by PublishAmerica, and has written Historical, Thriller, and Science Fiction novels.