Howard W. Cameron Jr. was born in orient Pennsylvania in March 1927. Born into a coal-mining family, at the age of eight, he and his family moved to Virginville, West Virginia, where he spent the remainder of his youth. At the age of seventeen, his parents signed him up to join the United States Navy, where he served his country during World War ll on a navy minesweeper. Howard is the father of nine children. Howard has always had a passion for God, family, and writing, and it is this combination of passions that inspires the books that he writes. Although he writes fiction books, it is from his life experience and his faith in God and the Bible that inspires the stories that he tells. It is his desire that not only will reading his books bring great enjoyment to all who read them, but also to point people to the God of heaven and His son Jesus Christ. At the age of eighty-three, he is still very active in his church and out in the community and spends time writing every day.