John R. Henderson is an author and retired sociology professor living in Flagstaff, Arizona. He and his wife, Cheryl, have four adult children and six grandchildren.

He is a graduate of William Jewell College and Arizona State University, where he earned an AB in sociology and a master of arts in education. He completed further graduate work in urban studies at State University of New York in Brockport. For a total of thirty-eight years, he taught subjects including family studies, rural-urban studies, and sociology of education. He was elected faculty senate president on two college campuses and served as chairperson of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division at Scottsdale Community College.

His experience in sociology inspired his nonfiction classroom memoir, Attachments: To Those Who Can, and his two novels: Silence Is the Killer, about the subject of suicide, and Death in Little Dixie, a mystery involving the urbanization of a small rural town.

His experience in sociology has inspired his nonfiction memoir, Attachments: To Those Who Can, and his two novels: Silence is the Killer, about the subject of suicide, and Death in Little Dixie, a mystery involving the urbanization of a small rural town.