James Van Eaton was born in Auburn, California and raised between Auburn and the neighboring town of Grass Valley. He stumbled through a variety of diverse jobs before securing a position at a venerable Grass Valley bookstore and beginning his love affair with books. He reads more than he should, watches too many movies, and tends to get stuck talking literature with people at parties. It’s a tough thing to pry him away from some sort of storytelling. Naturally, he uses his “spare time” to tell his own tales. He currently owns and manages his own used bookstore, Winston Smith Books, in Auburn, California.

Biography provided by the author, June 2008.