Mic Lowther grew up in West Virginia, New Jersey, and Minnesota in the 40s and 50s, lived in New York and Arizona in the 60s, and then spent 35 years in Alaska. He has worked as a computer programmer and systems analyst for 62 years. Having failed retirement, he is still self-employed working with his brothers in the family business, first in Minnesota and now Kentucky. During that time, he backpacked 5,000 miles in 19 US states and Western Canada.
In 45 years of writing, he’s published two non-fiction adventure books (Walking North and Taking the Long Way Home), two books of children's adventure stories (Manford of MorningGlory Mountain, Books 1 and 2) and, most recently, the three novels of The Moorhouse Trilogy (Seventeen Parcels, The Unlikely Redemption of the Thief Sydney Bridgewater, and What Mom & Dad Never Told Us).
