Emeritus Professor of English and Journalism at the University of Cincinnati, James C. Wilson lived in Santa Fe during the turbulent 1970s and wrote for both Santa Fe newspapers.

He has lived in Albuquerque since 2012. He is the author of ten books, including most recently Weather Reports from the Autism Front: A Father’s Memoir of his Autistic Son; Santa Fe, City of Refuge: An Improbable Memoir of the Counterculture; Hiking New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon: The Trails, The Ruins, The History; Peyote Wolf, a Fernando Lopez Santa Fe Mystery; Smokescreen, a Fernando Lopez Santa Fe Mystery; Taos Gothic, a Fernando Lopez Mystery; and Ghost Canyon, a Fernando Lopez Santa Fe Mystery.