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John Stump

Hometown: Welch, West Virginia Lives in: Fairhope, AL

Contact Information

  • Email: Bamashogun@gmail.com

Address:

    • P.O. Box 319
      Fairhope, AL 36532
      United States
  • Phone: (251) 928-5959
  • Preferred Contact Method: Email

 

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About John Stump

Genres: Creative nonfiction

Available for: In Person, Personal Talks

Bio: John Stump is an author, retired teacher, coach, professor sports medicine, Olympic physician in Seoul, now lecturer, and grandfather. A B.S. graduate of University of Maryland. An MS and EdD from the United States Sports University, and a PhD, Shiannxi University (China).
After his studies brought him back to America. He practiced chiropractic, acupuncture (Chinese Medicine) and sports medicine in Delmar, Delaware for ten years and in Fairhope, Alabama for 35 years. He retired in 2018 to be …Read More with his grandchildren, write, give talks and enjoy Fairhope life.

Works: He is author of numerous scientific and medical articles, as well as textbooks with Elsevier Publishing. He changed to creative nonfiction after a sudden hemorrhagic stroke caused his retirement from practice. There was a two year struggled to learn …Read More to walk, read, and write again: ‘A Stroke of Midnight'(2006) this book describes the sudden stroke and the struggle of recovery. Then ‘A Wild and Precious Life’ (Intellect, 2019) a memoir of his early life. Followed by ‘Undeterred’ (Intellect, 2020) this book describes the rough road a D.C. (Doctor of Chiropractic) had in breaking the barriers and the hold the medical profession had on Sports Medicine thru 1986, Asian Games, 1987 Goodwill Games, (held in Moscow) and 1988 Olympiad, (held in Seoul). Suddenly, chiropractic, acupuncture, was considered part of sports medicine. In 2021 (Intellect) ‘Rambling Rosie Runyon.’ (2022, Intellect). ‘From a Doctors Notepad,’ (2023). Escape to Volcan (Intellect) and (2025, Intellect), The Bartender.

Awards:

All awards and certifications are health-care oriented. No writing awards…yet!

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