JOHN DAVID GRAHAM is the founder of Good Samaritan Home, a housing / mentoring program helping men and women restart their lives after prison. Prior to that, he was a door-to-door salesman, children’s home counselor, substitute school teacher, truck driver, fireman, building contractor, minister and journalist. 

As you can see, he has a lot of life experience. Sometimes the road home takes many twists and turns to develop what John calls “calloused hands and a tender heart” which he used to write his award-winning debut novel RUNNING AS FAST AS I CAN.

https://johndavidgraham.com/

Readers Favorite hailed his book as “truly a masterpiece.” It has won 30 awards including: 

🏆American Writing Awards General Fiction Winner
🏆StoryTrade Debut Book of the Year
🏆Independent Author Award for Social / Political Change
🏆Best Book Award for Inspirational Fiction
🏆Hawthorne Prize for Fiction
🏆Pencraft Award for Literary Excellence
🏆American Fiction Award
🏆Firebird Book Award

https://www.amazon.com/Running-As-Fast-Can-ebook/dp/B0CKK418FB/