John Temple teaches journalism at West Virginia University in Morgantown, where he lives with his wife and two sons.John takes regular breaks from that life to spend time in special worlds, including autopsy rooms and prisons and Florida. He takes pictures and records audio, if they let him. Then he comes back home and tries to make a story out of what he's seen or heard about.He's written three narrative journalism books, including the forthcoming American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Crew of Doctors Unleashed the Deadliest Drug Epidemic in U.S. History (September 2015).Temple also wrote Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner's Office, published in 2005, and The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates, winner of the 2010 Scribes Book Award.He also writes novels and screenplays and hopes to sell one soon.For a proper biography, see John's WVU bio at http://reedcollegeofmedia.wvu.edu/faculty_staff/faculty/john_temple.Also check out his website at www.johntemplebooks.com.