Jim Sargent is a retired professor of American History. His accomplishments include an undergraduate degree from Eastern Michigan University, followed by his Masters and PhD in US History at Michigan State in 1970. Jim taught history for forty years, mostly at Virginia Western Community College. After years of writing historical articles for journals, as well as interview articles about sports history, Jim turned to write fiction. He first penned a baseball novel but soon switched to mysteries. Creating Mickey Mathews and a supporting cast, Jim added his historical expertise about 20th Century America to his fictional plots and characters to write Warm Springs Mystery. Jim Sargent lives with his wife Betty in Roanoke, Virginia.
