James Hitt is a graduate of North Texas State University. In addition to his many articles related to the west and film, he is the author of The American West, From Fiction into Film and Words and Shadows. He is also represented in The Louis L'amour Companion. In 2001, Adventure Books published his novel The Last Warrior. In 2009, his short story "The Boy with Too Much Hair" won the grand prize for best fantasy story from Once Written.com In 2010, Aberdeen Bay released Carney, A Novel in Stories, which won the Grand Prize for Fiction at the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. His novel The Courage of Others was nominated for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. He is a member of The Western Writers of America and has also been a guest speaker at the Gene Autry Museum.