Kenneth Hall (1957 - still hanging on) was born in Little Rock, Arkansas during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. His father was an institutional food salesman and business owner, and his mother was a homemaker and bookkeeper. He has two younger sisters, one a resident of Arkansas and the other a resident of Tennessee. Hall moved at the age of ten to west Tennessee, where his family lived until his graduation from high school. He attended his undergraduate studies at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, where he met his wife of almost 40 years, Pam. Hall later attended Belmont University for his MBA, and then pursued pre-doctoral studies at Indiana Wesleyan University, later finishing his doctorate at Oakland City University near Evansville, Indiana. His research on Formal Axiology, the study of human values and organizational ethics, greatly informs his fiction, as does his southern upbringing, including the characters, stories, and myths long nurtured by his large, extended family. He and Pam reside in northern Georgia with their three dogs.