About John Henry Timmis Books
John Henry Timmis IV was born in 1961 in Warren, Pennsylvania, and spent part of his childhood in Athens, Ohio, where his father taught at Ohio University. Timmis described his home life there as an abusive one, with his parents separating and his mother bringing him to Chicago. He ran away several times before his mother committed him to the Menninger Clinic in 1976--purportedly because she thought he might be schizophrenic.