Randy Turner

I am a retired middle school English teacher. Before going into teaching, I spent 22 years as a newspaper reporter and editor, earning more than 100 national, state, and regional awards, including 40 for investigative reporting. I have written 10 books, seven non-fiction, including 5:41: Stories from the Joplin Tornado, Silver Lining in a Funnel Cloud: Greed, Corruption, and the Joplin Tornado, and Let Teachers Teach, and three novels, including No Child Left Alive. I live in Joplin, Missouri.