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John Crues was born in Lubbock, Texas, and grew up moving throughout the oil fields of west Texas and eastern New Mexico. In 1968 he attended his fourteenth school which was Harvard University where he majored in physics. He obtained a master’s degree in physics at the University of Illinois before returned to Harvard to obtain an MD at Harvard Medical School.
The author’s career in the United States Forest Service began in June 1968 when he was hired to maintain trails on the Lolo National Forest stationed in Plains, Montana. After being schooled in the basics of wildfire fighting, he fought numerous forest fires during the summers of 1968 and 1969. Fred Cavel, a former smokejumper supervisor, was the Plains Fire Control officer and was a strong mentor for Dr. Crues, steering him in the direction of following his uncle as a smokejumper. He trained as a Missoula smokejumper in June 1970. He worked as a smokejumper during the summers of 1970 and 1971 from bases at Missoula, Montana; Winthrop, Washington; Fairbanks, Alaska; and Grangeville, Idaho.
After medical school he trained in internal medicine and radiology at the University of Southern California and Cedars-Sinai Medical Centers in Los Angeles. He has published over 100 articles in the medical scientific literature and has authored or edited 12 medical textbooks. He has also written 29 textbook chapters, primarily in the field of musculoskeletal Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
As a radiologist, Dr. Crues has worked at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, and Radnet, Inc. in Los Angeles. He has been Medical Director for Radnet since 1998, where he has directed of a well-known specialty fellowship training program in musculoskeletal imaging.
He published his first novel, Firestorm in Paradise, in 1998. A Smokejumper’s Saga is his second novel.
