Jim Lewis was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1939 but moved as an infant to Westport, Connecticut, where he lived until his commissioning in the U.S. Air Force in 1963. He holds a B.A. in English from West Virginia Wesleyan College and an M.P.S. (Master Pastoral Studies) from Loyola University, New Orleans.Jim is a veteran of the Vietnam War, a retired public high school teacher of English, and currently serves his community as an inpatient volunteer in hospice care for a major hospital system in Central Florida.