J.J. Murray

Born near Philadelphia in Abington, PA, multicultural romance novelist J. J. Murray has lived in St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Huntington, NY, Plainfield, NJ, West Lafayette, IN, and Marietta, OH. He now makes his home in Roanoke, Virginia. J. J. taught public high school English for 20 years to students who sometimes actually spoke it. He is currently lead teacher in a wilderness residential school for at-risk young men. He met his wife, Amy Renee, in the fall of 1989, and their four-year courtship forms the basis of his first novel, Renee and Jay. The first ten years of their marriage form the basis for Renee and Jay 2. They have two sons, Joshua Malik and Jontae Emmanuel.