S. D. Buhr was only seventeen when he got his first professional writing job as a part-time sportswriter for his hometown afternoon newspaper, the Webster City (IA) Daily Freeman-Journal.
Three colleges and two unrelated careers later, he once again found himself writing about sports for multiple online media outlets.
When the COVID shutdown of 2020 made covering sports all but impossible, he began writing The Du-Over, his first novel. It became the first of nine books that make up the Growing Up Barely Boomer series.
Splitting time primarily between Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Fort Myers, Florida, he spends most of his time reading, writing, listening to music, watching baseball, and being a grandpa—occasionally all at the same time.