Following successful careers as architect and parish priest, James Lupton, has found satisfaction in writing fiction. Drawing on childhood memories from a small southern town during the Second World War he has produced a novel bringing the reader face to face with a family coping in that difficult time. He has published two earlier sequential novels entitled PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE: TURBULENT YOUTH and PERILOUS POWER, medieval murder mysteries about an ancestor who was chaplain to Henry the Eighth. TARBORO TEA PARTY unfolds in a contemporary setting offering a story of conflict, intrigue, romance, and cultural upheaval. A sequel is in process. James holds degrees from Duke University, University of Pennsylvania and Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest. He lives in the eastern North Carolina village where he grew up, serves parishes, enjoys reading, visits scattered children and grandchildren and is a world traveler.