LARRY D. BLACK is an author with a series of published novels centered on the Scroggins family. Larry was reared in the southern part of Franklin County, Texas, and attended the Mt. Vernon High School through his junior year at which time his family moved to Houston, TX. He is a graduate of the University of Houston and is now retired after being employed with a major defense contractor for twenty-six years. He and Martha were married for 31 years and after her death he married Linda and they live in Franklin County on Larry's original home place. In marrying Linda he assumed the responsibility of three children of whom Linda has legal custody. Since retiring, he has two full-time jobs. For one, he owns and operates Little Creek Farms in the South Franklin community. After some twenty years of raising goats, Larry sold his goats and now devotes his time to working in his yard. Secondly, he is a preacher at the Blodgett church of Christ where he spends a lot of time ministering to inmates and drug rehabilitation. Between the two, Larry never has a shortage of anything to do. Larry, Linda and the kids still live on the farm and enjoy the farm life.