Christian author and North Carolina native, Jeanie M. Cline, has published twelve novels, many short stories, ballads, collections of poetry, and church plays. Founder of the N.C. Literary Guild for Students, she serves as Education Mentor. Cline graduated from L.H.S. in 1959 and continued her education at Caldwell Community College, Lenoir, NC. She sang in the Jr. H.S. Chorus and the L.H.S. Glee Club. Cline has two sons, Vernon and Joey. Her co-author, Charles "Chuck" Troutman, is also a native North Carolinian who graduated from L.H.S. in '59, and then from UNC-Chapel Hill, NC in '63. Troutman was a percussionist in the Lenoir Jr. H.S. Band and also the L.H.S. Band. His wife, Betsy Y. Troutman was First Chair percussionist and Troutman was Second Chair in Mrs. Troutman's senior year. The Troutmans have been married fifty-four years and have two sons who also became percussionists.