A native of Springfield, Missouri, award-winning author Tim Ritter discovered writing and public speaking early in life. By age 13, his writings included poetry, two children’s adventure books, several plays and a comic strip which eventually found its way to his junior high school newspaper. He also discovered that he liked being on stage, and how people tended to listen when he spoke into a microphone.

Throughout his 29-year professional career as a mechanical engineer, Tim wrote articles for trade magazines and was the featured speaker at hundreds of seminars across the country.

Sarah Burning, released in 2021, tells the true story of a fatal housefire in rural Missouri in 1959, and the struggle of the three survivors who had to put the physical and emotional pain, survivor guilt, and horrifying memories of that night behind them. It is a story of perseverance, strength, and redemption in which everyone, including the rest of the family, had to literally rise from the ashes.

Soul Sketches – 2^nd Edition, released in 2020, is a heartfelt collection of short stories and poems, most of which are based on Tim’s personal experiences. He refers to the book as a “real, sometimes brutal, look at live, love, marriage, divorce, and everything in between”.

The Lantern series of books is a collection of Tim’s lectures which have been presented to Masonic lodges in Southwest Missouri and has received critical acclaim from members of the fraternity across the state.

Tim lives outside Fair Grove, Missouri, with his wife, Lisa, writing full time and speaking to civic groups and organizations on a variety of topics. In addition to being past president of the Springfield Writers Guild, he is a member of the Douglas County Historical Society, the Christian County Historical Society, Ozarks Genealogical Society, and the Poe Studies Association.

Tim can be contacted via this website, and can be found on Facebook as Author Tim Ritter, on Instagram as authortimritter, and Youtube as TimothyRitter.