Schmidt, John A.

Author, John A Schmidt was raised on a farm in central Missouri, primarily by his mother, due to his father's death when John was eight. For some years after graduating from high school, he drifted from job to job and attended junior college sporadically. For entertainment, he and most of his close friends partied and participated in informal (illegal) road races. He eventually married his first wife, got serious about college, was awarded a BA in Mathematics from the University of Missouri in Kansas City, then moved to California. John became a computer programmer/analyst for income and found...