Jack Mearns is a professor of psychology at California State University, Fullerton. He has authored John Sanford: An Annotated Bibliography (Oak Knoll, 2008) and the novels Caliphornia and Deadline News.
He was a lawyer, a novelist, a committed Communist, a progenitor of rural noir, and a blacklisted screenwriter. Through it all, John Sanford kept on reinventing himself.