Jim Newell was born in in Maine in 1930 and moved with his parents to Canada in 1935. He Graduated from Acadia University in 1951 with the Class of 1908 Essay Prize and a gold medal in dramatics. He started work as a radio announcer at CKBW in his home town of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, but three months later he came down with Polio and spent three months learning to walk after being paralyzed from the rib cage down. He became a Canadian Citizen in 1952. He worked as a radio announcer and Commercial Manager at CKBW until 1956 when he joined the air force as an air traffic control officer. He didn't know when he enlisted that air traffic control is rated the most stressful job in the world. He left the service in 1966 with the rank of Captain, and became a high school English teacher - perhaps the second most stressful job, teaching the subject students seem to dislike most. After six years and four summer schools he switched to counselling and stayed with it for 18 years until retirement. He and his wife Dorothy moved back to their roots in Nova Scotia and Jim took what he thought would be a nice retirement job, working as an investigative reporter for a publisher who owned three weekly community newspapers and a TV magazine. Would you believe he won major awards for his resulting weekly columns for each of his first two years - 1988 and '89 - and then was promoted to Editor of the largest of the three papers, regardless of the fact that the newsroom employed five reporters with degrees in journalism. He promptly won a major award for the best editorial of 1990 and another for the best personal column of the year in 1990.Then his old Polio nemesis struck when he was diagnosed with Post-Polio Syndrome and he wound up in a wheel chair, where he still spends most of his time. He began writing books to keep busy and found that they sold. So far, since he began writing at age 70, he has turned out 16 novels, two books of short stories, a book of daily devotions and ten years of monthly columns for two churches, another Christian publication and an e-magazine for seniors. During these years he took time out for open heart surgery with a quintuple heart by-pass in 2006 and again for a series of minor strokes in 2008.His books include 4 e-books: Never use a Chicken, a collection of 14 humorous short stories describing various ways that crime does not pay, a novelette called Sometimes "Is" Isn't, both published by Untreed Reads Publishing. In November 2011 Las Vegas Gold, a crime story wrapped around a major league baseball team with the first female manager in MLB history made its appearance, and on August 8. 2012. Untreed Reads haave six more novels in their queue waiting to be read and evaluated. All of e-books are available on Amazon. Also on Amazon readers can find an early book Jim wrote in 2007, a baseball story, Rookie ManagerHouse of Anansi Publishing are considering what Jim thinks is his best book , Black and White, and he is waiting to hear how two of his Christian books, a non-fiction collection of 90 daily meditations called To think About - Again, and a fiction Christian story called Wild Willie which will also by available on Amazon. Jim and Dorothy recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. They have four grown children, all writers in one form or another, and two teen-age granddaughters. They live in Waterloo, Ontario, where three of their children also live and work.At age 82 he is still hard at work writing a monthly column and an occasional short story in the e-magazine ELDER-ZONE, as well as a monthly column To Think About published in the newsletter of his church, Glen Acres Baptist in Waterloo and syndicated to First News at Simcoe Baptist Church in Ontario.