Jack Harpster retired in 2002 from the newspaper industry after 43 years. For the next two years, he wrote and published Las Vegas Perspective, which launched his second career as a writer.
His first book, John Ogden, the Pilgrim (1605 – 1682): A Man of More Than Ordinary Mark, was published in 2006 by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press of New Jersey. Helping Hands, Helping Hearts is his second book. He is currently revising a book on the life of Chicago founder and early railroad pioneer William B. Ogden for another scholarly publisher; and has just completed a narrative non-fiction manuscript about a young Revolutionary War-era Iroquois captive.
Harpster lived in Las Vegas for twenty years, and currently resides in Reno with his wife Cathy.