John Hill holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of San Francisco and a Master's degree from the University of Phoenix. This is his third book; his first book, Dreamer in the Fields, My life as a Child Migrant Farm Worker, was published in 2010, and his second book, The Sermon at the Coliseum, was published in 2018. After graduating from high school in 1964, he enlisted in the United States Air Force and later worked for over twenty years in the private industry for Arrow Development, FMC, and ROLM Corporations, all in Silicon Valley, California, before engaging in government employment with Santa Clara County and Los Angeles County. Hill is now retired and lives with his wife of fifty-one years, Mattie, in Friant, California.