John Alton
John Alton received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama. He studied under renowned Southern writer Barry Hannah. From 1981-1987, Alton taught college English and published short fiction and articles before writing the novel The Book of the Great Border, which was a finalist in the 1987 A.... more
John Alton received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama. He studied under renowned Southern writer Barry Hannah. From 1981-1987, Alton taught college English and published short fiction and articles before writing the novel The Book of the Great Border, which was a finalist in the 1987 Associated Writing Programs Fiction Contest. That same year, Alton relocated to Beijing, China where he studied traditional mind-body healing techniques that subsequently became the subject of 3 non-fiction books and health-science research. In 2017, Alton decided to go around the traditional publishing industry by releasing The Book of the Great Border on Amazon as a paperback and ebook.
