James Patrick Warner started from less than humble beginnings: his birth-mother, a troubled showgirl, left him on a park bench in Barstow, California. He was rescued by a nurse and her husband, who fell in love with him and took him home. Warner attended the University of Southern California and California State Universities Fullerton and Northridge. He served in the U.S. Army, was honorably discharged as a Vietnam-era veteran, and married his high-school sweetheart in Azuza, California. Together they raised two children. He has another daughter who lives in Los Angeles. Warner is deceased. Born in Bogota, Colombia, of Polish-American and Colombian-Chilean parentage, Kule came to appreciate ethnic values and cultural differences by direct observation of disparate social classes and living conditions in Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Panama; several European and Eastern bloc countries; Communist China and Russia; and North America, including the 48 contiguous American states, Hawaii, and eight provinces of Canada. His heritage paint-brushed a wanderlust onto his life-canvas, leading him to travel in 39 countries and to perform keynote-speaker engagements and seminars in 17. Kule laughs often and portrays a wide range of emotions just for fun. He considers making other people feel happier or more enlightened for having met him, important. He prefers early "organic" jazz, likes to admire beautiful women and watch competent people create their best work, especially artists. He enjoys ice-cream, writing biographies and fiction, ghostwriting, drawing, and painting. "If you curl up with my books and find yourself emotionally breathless, intellectually provoked, inspired, changed, informed and satisfied, I have done my job," Kule states as his purpose. Begun in 2012, this independent publisher publishes certain books written by the author Ronald Joseph Kule.