About the Author

A veteran of the Vietnam War and a career educator, James J. Heiman holds an undergraduate degree from Rockhurst University and master's and specialist's degrees from the University of Kansas, the University of Missouri--Kansas City, and Loyola University, New Orleans. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri--Kansas City and teaches in the Humanities Division of the Metropolitan Community College, Blue River, in Independence, Missouri. He has been a teacher-consultant with the Greater Kansas City Writing Project since 1984 and specializes in teaching developmental reading, creative writing and researching Kansas City in the Great War. Jim has three children and one grandchild. Jim and his wife, Mary, live in Independence, Missouri.