Randy TurnerRandy Turner is a retired middle school English teacher and worked twenty-two years as a newspaper reporter and editor in southwest Missouri, primarily at the Lamar Democrat and Carthage Press, earning more than fifty awards for investigative eporting, spot news reporting and feature writing. He is the author of thirteen nonfiction books--including 5:41: Stories from the Joplin Tornado and The Buck Starts Here: Harry S. Truman and the City of Lamar--and three novels. Read More Read Less