J.B. Hogan is an award-winning author with some 350 stories and poems and twelve books published. Among his books are Bar Harbor, Mexican Skies, Time and Time Again, Living Behind Time, and Losing Cotton. He has a Ph.D. in English Literature, worked for many years as a technical writer, and has researched and written extensively on local history. His book Angels in the Ozarks is a history of 1930s professional baseball in the area. He helped write An Illustrated History of the Fayetteville Square with noted local historian Anthony J. Wappel. His newest local history book, the award-winning Forgotten Fayetteville and Washington County, was published in September 2023.