My guest today has an MBA in corporate finance and has been self-employed for twenty-five years. The father of three, he and his wife live in Concord, MA, and his book of poems, Where Inches Seem Miles, was selected by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best independent books. He was born in 1954, the year the Supreme Court mandated school desegregation, but he attended all-white public schools in his hometown of Columbus, GA, through sixth grade. His novel, Never, is a coming-of-age story in the segregated South. Welcome to Authors Over 50, Joel Johnson.