Jim Morrison has flown barrel rolls with the Navy's Blue Angels (he didn't barf), climbed and slept overnight in a 243-foot-tall redwood (he didn't fall), and gone one-on-one with Muhammad Ali (he didn't flinch).

His award-winning stories have appeared in Smithsonian, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, This Old House, National Wildlife, Smart Money’s offspring, George, Context, Family PC, Good Housekeeping, Playboy, Biography, The Washington Post, Reader’s Digest, Utne Reader, Southwest Spirit, the magazine of Southwest Airlines, and American Way, the magazine of American Airlines, among others. 

From July 2001 until June 2003, he was president of The American Society of Journalists and Authors, a trade association of 1,100 nonfiction freelance writers. He lives in Norfolk, Virginia.