John Malcolm Cunningham Jr.

Author Bio:

John "Jack" M. Cunningham, Jr. grew up on the Gulf Coast. He's a native of Mobile, Alabama and lived in New Orleans, Louisiana for twenty-five years. A graduate of the University of Alabama, he's a former history teacher. He's written professionally for over thirty years, and his work has appeared in numerous Christian publications. He's a writing teacher and speaker who has helped many beginning writers on their path to publication.

Turfmen and the Prodigal: A Story of Old Mobile

Bitter, backslidden Christian Gideon Deshler spirals toward destruction, his demise hastened by evil Elvira Sturgis with whom he falls in love. She and her father, president of Alabama’s Spring Hill Jockey Club, brutalize their slaves. Two of Sturgis’s slaves, the jockey Ned and his girlfriend Becky,…

Squire, A Mascot's Tale

At the outbreak of the Civil War, and against his wife Rachel's pleadings, Captain Jesse Webb takes his beloved dog Squire to war as his regiment's mascot. By 1863, they're posted in Port Hudson, Louisiana. Here Jesse encounters his old rival for Rachel's hand, Colonel Marsden, who'd killed Jesse's…