Novelist and creative non-fiction writer Jerry Johnson lives in the North Country of the upper Midwest. In addition to his historical novel, Ivory and Gold - A Safari into the Sandhills and across the Athi Plain, he is the author of Hunting Birds - The Lives and Legends of the Pine County Rod, Gun, Dog and Social Club. He has written four collections of essays and short stories: Crazy Old Coot, Old Coots Never Forget, Coot Stews, and A Limit of Coot. His books are available in paperback and Kindle editions at amazon.com. His blog, Dispatches from a Northern Town, features stories about bird hunting, bird dogs, and bird guns; memoirs, social and political commentary, and other "observations of an old curmudgeon." A former newspaper reporter, photographer, editor, columnist, and college public relations director, Johnson is retired and lives with his wife Patti live in a 130-year-old log house on the small farm they manage for wildlife habitat. He hunts, fishes, and shoots clay target games with a group of friends that call themselves the Over the Hill Gang.