Cracks

<p>Johnny Miller came into the world weighting less than three pounds and spent the first year of his life in a shoebox crib. No one expected him to survive Johnny was raised in the backwoods of a rural central Arkansas settlement where electricity and indoor plumbing were unheard of--at least in the two-room log shanty that was home to his very impoverished family. Johnny's unvarnished unfiltered talent for storytelling makes his readers feel as if they are right alongside him during his harrowing life experiences. His love for life and people permeates the pages of <em>Cracks: Memoir of a Southern Plowboy</em>.</p><p>At the age of seventeen Johnny along with only eight classmates graduated from Poyen High School. He then joined the military became a member of the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army and is now a veteran of the Korean War. After college Johnny became an educator whose students included author E. Lynn Harris and former President Bill Clinton. He spent the last twenty-three years of his career working for the Arkansas State Department of Education. He and his wife Emma now live in Austin Texas. However Johnny will always consider central Arkansas home. That is where his roots are and where he became a self-proclaimed southern plowboy.</p>