Joe Werner is a retired contractor and the author of two books, The Tinsmith's Son and Skid Row. As a survivor of the Great Depression, most of his books are set during that time of great economic and personal strife. Delta 'Shine is his third book and is set in the late 1940s, when moonshine still dotted the back roads between Memphis and rural Mississippi. When not writing, Joe enjoys traveling all over the United States, hitting every golf course in sight with his wife, Amelia.