Award Winning Author Michael Hicks Thompson

Michael was born in his mother’s own bed on a farm in Yazoo County, Mississippi. He grew up in a town of 310 souls. He knows a thing or two about strong Christian women, alcoholic men, and Jesus. He’s been to Cuba twice on door-to-door evangelism mission trips, been a Sunday School teacher, and is a member of Christ Covenant Reformed Church. He and his wife of 52 years live in Memphis, TN, have three sons and six grandchildren. The little ones call him “Big Mike.”

After earning his undergrad degree from Ole Miss and then a master’s in mass communication from the University of South Carolina, Michael started a one-man ad agency in Memphis. It grew to 87 employees in two cities, winning numerous national and international creative awards.

Michael sold his firm in 2011 and another business in 2018. In 2007 he added a then hobby which turned into a new publishing company, Shepherd King Publishing. He has since written six novels. His latest , CLOUDS ABOVE, is available in book stores and on Amazon in print, and Kindle. The Rector was first in another series. After The Rector, he added The Actress, both murder mysteries that take place in the Mississippi Delta. The Rector has already won four major awards. Likewise for The Actress, including the Grand Prize for best book (non-fiction or fiction) for International Kathryn C. Treat Award.

He hopes to have a movie made from The Rector.