Award winning author Tim Scherrer is a native of Quincy, Illinois. He received his B.A. and M.A. in History from Truman State University, where he was also an Army ROTC Distinguished Military Graduate. He also studied at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Scherrer received three consecutive awards for non-fiction books from the Missouri Writers Guild in 2024 for Half the Town Burned, 2025 for The U.S. Military Handcart and 2026 for Spycatchers, Interrogators and Analysts. He is also a speaker for Missouri Humanities in the 2025-6 season on The Great Wooldridge Fire of 2022 and Missouri's Signal Pigeon Corps connection. He also appeared on WW2TV (2x), Spycraft 101, What's the Scuttlebutt podcast, and The Team House. He worked at Truman State University and taught Military Science/Military History at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He also served as Director of College Placement/Counseling & Instructor of American/Military History at Missouri Military Academy. He is the former Dean of Academics at Fr. Tolton Catholic High School in Columbia, MO. He served as a Lieutenant Colonel 28 years in the U.S. Army Reserve as a Military Intelligence Officer. He received the Knowlton Award from the Military Intelligence Corps Association in 2015 and was inducted into the Army ROTC Hall of Fame at Truman State. He lives in Columbia, MO. He can be reached at [email protected] .