About the Author

Author-lecturer, Dr. O. J. Bryson - friends and family call him "Jay" - lives on a mountain overlooking the Tennessee River, in the shadow of the Great Smoky Mountains. His novel, A Trace of Smoke, a suspense/thriller, is Number One on the Regional Bestseller List. Bryson, a university professor/administrator turned businessman, is also published in Writer's Digest and has nonfiction books published in English, French, and Korean. In high school, he raced motorcycles and boxed in the Golden Gloves. As a professor, he toured for the State Department with the USO. He has two sons, one daughter-in-law, and one grandson.