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About Joe
Joseph G. Asher is a lifelong student of the Civil War. As a boy reading Indianapolis Star newspaper articles highlighting U.S. history from “100 Years Ago Today,” he developed a passion for the stories of nineteenth century America. He then began to read books about the Antebellum era of the South which sparked an interest in visiting the battlefields and cities associated with this turbulent time in America. In his novels, he writes only about the places he has visited and researched.
As a young man, he attended Indiana and Purdue Universities, becoming a high school teacher of English. He taught all core classes including novels, Shakespeare, writing, and broadcast writing for the school’s one hundred watt FM radio station. Students said that he never taught a novel without giving its historical background, with some even saying that the literature class became a history class!
In the course of his life, he was called to the ministry. As a pastor, missionary, prison chaplain and hospital chaplain, he learned that God gives us what we need, not necessarily what we want.
