John Warley is an award-winning author, a dedicated dad, and a retired lawyer, having practiced both criminal law as a prosecutor and civil law as a litigator for over forty years. A South Carolinian by birth, he grew up largely in Yorktown, Virginia.

He is the award-winning author of five published novels and one non-fiction history of his undergraduate alma mater (Stand Forever, Yielding Never; The Citadel in the 21st Century). Jury of One is his sixth novel.