Wilmot B. Irvin practices law in Columbia, South Carolina.
He and his wife, Jeannie, live on a farm in the predominantly rural Lower
Richland community, where they raise children and animals. Over the years
the couple has reared a son and two daughters, seven dogs, four cats, two
goats, countless pigs, dozens of hens and roosters, and five horses.
The author was born in 1950. Several years ago he earnestly (and furiously) began writing fiction and has now completed four novels. Jack's Passage, his first, was published in 2001. His second novel - There Is a River - was published in February 2002. The author's third work, The Storytellers, was released in late 2002. His fourth, Some Kind of Kin, is a novella published in 2004. His fifth novel, Merriman, is underway. The author has recently completed a series of as - yet unpublished short stories, entitled The Chronicle of the Life and Times of Fletcher Lowe.
Keen on traditional values, his fresh, clean works explore the depth and vitality of human relationships- particularly those within the family. Evil and faith, selfishness and love, loss and fulfillment, guilt and deliverance are themes that frequently find their way into his stories.
Being a litigator for more than twenty-five years has influenced the author's writing, yet his books are not "lawyer fiction." Neither should his novels be labeled "Christian fiction," even though the author's faith clearly comes to life in his books. Call them instead evocative and colorful stories written about a variety of interesting people and their families – and how they come to terms with the unique challenges and opportunities life sends their way.