John Hamlett, a retired Navy officer and presently a substitute elementary school teacher, began his writing career in Houston at age 14 with his own weekly column as a teenage reporter for two lar...view moreJohn Hamlett, a retired Navy officer and presently a substitute elementary school teacher, began his writing career in Houston at age 14 with his own weekly column as a teenage reporter for two large Houston newspapers. He is the author of "Pigtails and Inkwells", a collection of stories he tells his schoolchildren of how life was during the 1940s when he was their age.
He lives in the Dallas suburb of Richardson with his wife, Elly. Their children and grandchildren live there also.view less