Originally from Eastern Kentucky, J. Kyle Johnson now lives in retirement among the hills and lakes of East Tennessee.
His FIREDAMP series of historical fiction novels is based on characters and incidents from the coal mining region of Appalachia during the 1930s.
His most recent historical novel, RISING FAWN, is based on the 1765 memoir of Lt. Henry Timberlake of Virginia in which the young militiaman recounts his impulsive decision to offer himself up as a diplomatic ‘hostage’ to the Overhill Cherokee living in villages along the Tellequo or “Little Tennessee” River in what is now East Tennessee.
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