James Hendricks was born in 1956, in Austin, Texas. And apart from a seven year (1987-1994) sojourn in Washington, D.C., he has called Austin his home. Since childhood, he has been an avid reader, discovering in books his love of language and storytelling. His critically well received first book, "The Demon of the Well", was published in paperback in 2019. The true story of the decades-long process by which this story was created is itself an epic tale.