John Watson Milton was born in St. Paul. He graduated from Princeton University and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; he also studied at the Harvard School of Business....view moreJohn Watson Milton was born in St. Paul. He graduated from Princeton University and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; he also studied at the Harvard School of Business. He was elected to the Ramsey County Board and the Minnesota Senate, where he became a recognized leader in health care policy. This led to service on several boards of state and national health and medical organizations. From 1970 to 1992, he worked on political campaigns at the national, state, and local level.
Milton has written commentary and editorials for daily and weekly papers, feature articles and investigative reports for magazines, speeches for political campaigns, short stories, poetry, and recipes for several cookbooks. He's a contributing writer for the bilingual weekly La Prensa de Minnesota. His novel, The Fallen Nightingale, won two national awards for historical fiction, and has been re-published in Spanish and Catalan translations. The author lives with his wife, Maureen Angélica Acosta, on a small farm in Afton, Minnesota, where he writes and grows wine grapes.view less