Best of Truly Independent Books 2022
About the Author
Mark Johnson grew up in Luling, Louisiana and St. Louis. His degree in English from the University of Colorado enabled him to scrape by for a few years as a freelance writer until he landed a real job as a publicist for the local United Way. After more than two decades at United Ways in three states (as CEO in the latter two), Johnson traded the non-profit executive suite for a badge, gun and thirteen bucks an hour with the Mobile, Alabama Police Department. He was fifty.
As a sworn officer—six years in uniform, six as a detective—Johnson was awarded numerous citations and medals, including Excellent Police Duty, Meritorious Service, and Wounded in Service. He considers being a cop the best job he ever had, and in 2016 this found expression in the publication of his police memoir, Apprehensions & Convictions.
His first shot at fiction, Bad Day on the Bayou, was inspired by real life on the job. Johnson and his wife Nancy live in Fairhope, Alabama.
