Professor Jerry Johnson

Novelist and creative non-fiction writer Jerry Johnson lives in the North Country of the upper Midwest. He is the author of three novels: The Executioner's Face, Ivory and Gold, and Hunting Birds. He has written five collections of essays and short stories: Crazy Old Coot, Old Coots Never Forget, Coot Stews, A Limit of Coot, and North Country Tales. His books are available in paperback and Kindle editions at amazon.com. His blog, Dispatches from a Northern Town, features essays about bird...See more

Novelist and creative non-fiction writer Jerry Johnson lives in the North Country of the upper Midwest. He is the author of three novels: The Executioner's Face, Ivory and Gold, and Hunting Birds. He has written five collections of essays and short stories: Crazy Old Coot, Old Coots Never Forget, Coot Stews, A Limit of Coot, and North Country Tales. His books are available in paperback and Kindle editions at amazon.com. His blog, Dispatches from a Northern Town, features essays about bird hunting, bird dogs, and bird guns; short stories, poems, memoirs, social commentary, and other "observations of an old curmudgeon." A retired newspaper reporter, photographer, editor, columnist, and college public relations director, Johnson and his wife Patti live in a 135-year-old log house on the small farm they manage for wildlife habitat. He hunts, fishes, shoots, smokes cigars, and drinks beer with a group of friends that call themselves the Over the Hill Gang. See less