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About the Author
Wealth of experience provides a unique basis for Mr. James' literary fiction writings. He has harvested grain across the Great Plains from the Red River to the Canadian border, decoded top secret electronic signals in the Arctic Circle, accomplished major projects on Air Force One and many other strategic and classified aircraft, built petrochemical equipment for the Middle East, driven transport trucks in Texas, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York, picked lemons in California, picked cotton in Oklahoma, and built computers in Colorado and Kansas.
Melvin has skills and certifications to weld steel, fly airplanes, overhaul diesel engines, paint automobiles, program computers, operate heavy construction machinery, and design and constuct residential, commercial, and industrial facilities.
He has degrees in engineering, business administration, and years of technical training. He has led work crews of hundreds of employees in various industries, managed hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts and operating budgets, and served as his town’s mayor for twenty years.
Mr. James has traveled the world, west to Japan, north to the Aleutian Islands, south to the Rio Grande, east to Greece and Israel, and to a score of other nations in between.
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About the Author, Continued
H. Melvin James is unique as a literary fiction author. To write an epic two-volume literary fiction novel, he drew on his ancestors’ tales and his own diverse experiences, broad travels, and rich cultural heritage in developing vivid characters and far-flung, realistic settings for the saga, “Tares among the Wheat.”
Melvin left the family farm at seventeen to work commercial jobs and pay his own way through two college degrees. His vast work experiences, from laborer to engineering management, employed from Texas to North Dakota, and from Massachusetts to Alaska, contribute authenticity to characters, scenes, and situations described in his novel.
Mr. James’s ancestors were pioneers in the Indian Territory’s celebrated Cherokee Outlet Land Run of 1893, fourteen years before Oklahoma’s statehood. Their stories were re-imagined, from the dramatic eras of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially from the perspective of the southern Great Plains, including glimpses of the monumental events of World War I, the Influenza Epidemic of 1918, oil booms and busts, the decadent Roaring Twenties, Prohibition, the Dirty Thirties, and the horrific Dust Bowl.
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