Background
James Daniel Doss was born on 9 March 1939, in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States.
James Daniel Doss was born on 9 March 1939, in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States.
Doss graduated from Kentucky Wesleyan College with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and physics in 1964 and obtained his Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of New Mexico in 1969.
In 1964, Doss started his career as an electrical engineer who worked on particle accelerators and biomedical technology for the University of California's Los Alamos National Laboratory while writing his novels. After retirement from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Doss continued to write his popular novels while living in Taos, New Mexico and Los Alamos, New Mexico.
James Doss was best known as the author of seventeen Charlie Moon mysteries, two of which were named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. He was also a contributor to professional journals, including more than sixty-five articles on electronics, bioengineering, superconductivity, biomedical physics, agriculture, and other topics.
(A lawman with a hardy appetite for life and an unshakable...)
2009(Charlie Moon, Ute rancher and investigator, isn't afraid ...)
2010(Colorado rancher and tribal investigator Charlie Moon is ...)
2008(A women of the Tohono O'otam tribe has been savagely -- a...)
1997Doss was a member of the Mystery Writers of America.
