James Harrison Campbell is a former international trade specialist for government and industry, a former maximum- security prisoner and seven-year escapee, and a perpetual student of human nature. Previously at home in Tokyo, Paris, Lima, Atlanta, and Phoenix, he now lives alone on the banks of the Tennessee River where he is thrilled to be alive and unexpectedly free thanks to a federal judge who credited him with having “changed the lives of many inmates and their families” through mentoring and education.

Into the Citadel, his debut dystopian trilogy, defeated prison walls every time he picked up his contraband mechanical pencil to write it.