Jim Trainor
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Jim Trainor

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Jim Trainor is the author of seven books. He is a Ph.D. physicist, formerly Deputy Division Director for Physics for the nation’s largest physics department (Los Alamos National Laboratory), and an ordained Episcopal priest. Jim wrote his first novel when he was five. It was a mystery story with a surprise ending, well at least as surprising as a five-year-old mind can conjure up. It was written in pencil and was three pages long. His mother kept it among her treasures until her dying day. It would be many years later before he would write his second novel. Jim grew up in the megalopolis of Los Angeles, went to college there, lived there until he was almost thirty. By then he'd had gotten his doctorate in physics (Univ. of California) – a far cry from novel writing, well maybe – and headed off to his first real job at the Argonne National Laboratory, near Chicago. Over the next two decades he lived in the world of experimental physics, and his profession would take him back to California, then to Los Alamos, New Mexico. For several years he served as deputy division leader for physics at Los Alamos. His love for writing found its way into over sixty scientific articles in physics journals. Things were going well in Jim's physics career, but then he was called into ordained ministry and studied to become an Episcopal priest. As he served in parishes in New Mexico, Texas and Wisconsin, he was often asked how someone trained in a field so rational, analytical and solid as physics could embrace something so intuitive, fuzzy and ancient as religion. For years, he had already been pondering that question, and the answer can be found in his first book, a nonfiction work: Grasp:Making Sense of Science and Spirituality (2010). Now he's written six novels (not including that masterpiece when he was five). His latest novel is Mail Girl (2021), a story of risk-taking, danger and love--and the surprising discovery that things that were lost may still be found. He's also the author of 68, a wild tour into parallel universes; The Mountain Goat (2017), a winner in the literary fiction category of the Writer's Digest self-published awards; Up North (2014), a thriller with a theme of redemption, set in the north woods of northern Wisconsin; The Sand People (2013), a novel set in Maui, dealing with issues afflicting many lives and pointing to the ultimate victory of hope over failure; and Waverly's Universe (2012), an winner in the 2012 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award. Another interesting thing happened to Jim during those years at Los Alamos. He met his wife Mary. Today they live in the upper Midwest and can often be found with their hound dog, Clyde, traveling the backroads of the nation in their campervan. They have three grown children. Jim's website is www.JimTrainorAuthor.com
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