Jim Kjeldsen started writing on April 4, 1974, in the student union building at Western Washington University with a view of Bellingham Bay. Fifty years later, he still hasn’t finished that first story. But he has written twenty novels, mostly historical fiction. He lives on the Upper Mississippi River in Wabasha, Minnesota, between a state hardwood forest and a federal wildlife refuge, along with his primary research partner of forty years. His identifier is the Mandarin Chinese pronoun Tā, which basically means human being. When not writing, his full name is Marvin George James Kjeldsen.
