James Strauss was born into a Coast Guard family during WWII. He’s lived in four countries and twenty-seven states, in places from South Manitou Island, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Honolulu, Hawaii. He’s held a variety of positions in many careers, from being a Marine Corps Officer wounded in Vietnam, life insurance agent, timeshare salesman, physician’s assistant, and a college professor in anthropology.

As a CIA team leader in the field he traveled to 122 countries, where he remains welcome in most of them to this day. James has published three novels; The Boy, The Bering Sea and The Warrior. He is credentialed in the areas of deep sea diving, fixed wing and rotary piloting and hot air ballooning. Currently James lives in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin where he continues to build from a newspaper publishing foundation called the Geneva Shore Report. This weekly is also published online at TheGenevaShoreReport.Com.

James Strauss will soon publish two Arch Patton Adventures It Was 1993 and Down in the Valley covers a period of time when he was working through a mission set in and around the Hawaiian Islands.

“I write about the human condition. The interaction that occurs throughout social systems, among elemental forces of leadership, religion and science. I write about the individual’s attempted integration into such social systems and attempt to define honor, integrity and duty, while I develop my stories.
My novels and short stories focus on self-determination and self-discovery. They are about arrival. The arrival and satisfaction of a blissful state from which one can intelligently reflect and then positively direct one’s life.
The Meaning of Life is all around us and ever changing, depending upon the perspective of others. I write about the meaning of self, and self-application to the meaning of life.”

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