Jack L Knapp

Jack Knapp, a top-100 Amazon SF Author and member of the Author's Guild, grew up in Louisiana and joined the Army after graduating from high school. He served three tours in Germany and traveled throughout western Europe before retiring.
Jack then graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso before beginning his second career, teaching science in the El Paso ISD. After retiring from that, Jack pursued a number of other interests (raising horses, farming, performing music, designing/performing experiments related to climate change, and studying history) before beginning his third career, novelist.
He's a member of Mensa and the Author's Guild, as well as a knight of the Society for Creative Anachronism, so plot elements involving science and medieval combat are experience-based. Historical elements are based on research, in which Jack's fictional characters interact with real persons who were intimately involved with historic events.
He's written of ESP (The Wizards Series) and woodcraft/survivalism; the deep woods of Louisiana, the setting for his Darwin's World Series, were his childhood playground. The New Frontiers Series examines the challenges humanity will face when it begins to spread out into space. Beginning with a startup company building the first practical spacecraft (The Ship), to growing a business in space while overcoming Earth-based obstacles (NFI: New Frontiers, Inc), to humanity's first contact with a non-human species (NEO: Near Earth Objects), then BEMs (Bug Eyed Monsters) and MARS, the novels are largely extrapolations from current events. Pirates, the sixth book in the series, is science-based space opera and the series isn't finished; Hybrids is underway.
Jack had long wanted to write a western novel based on the real history of his adopted state of New Mexico; that novel is The Territory, which was released in November 2019. The story begins shortly after the Civil War and the setting is Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory. A series of events during that time led to a complete breakdown of law and order. If you're not familiar with the Lincoln County War, think Billy the Kid; the war made him notorious and ultimately led to his death.
Jack is involved in social media, especially Facebook.