James F. Walsh
Official Website of Award-Winning Irish-American, Korean War Veteran Author James. F. Walsh
Author. Storyteller. Veteran. Husband. Father.
REVIEWS
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This book lets you get to know two people devoted to each other through more than 60 years of highs and lows. Then it gives you a realistic look at an end of life experience of a loved one complicated by a pandemic. I could not put the book down.
Kindle Customer, October 6 2021
I'm Shutting Down
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I found this book very interesting because it gave an excellent account and feel for what it is really like to be in a combat situation, and to experience all the horrors of war.
Dean Askeland,
March 5, 2014
Killers from a Distance
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I really enjoyed the story with Bridget and her bratty brother who uses Leprechaun magic to 'turn' mushrooms into gold coins using the word alleluia and the comeuppance he gets when he is lost in the woods.
Simie,
March 26, 2014
The Leprechauns of Union Township
BIO
James F. Walsh was born in Chicago but raised in Detroit. His many accolades include serving in combat in Korea, graduating from the University of Notre Dame, and becoming a talented and celebrated social worker and lawyer. Walsh draws from these many experiences in his writing.
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Staff Sergeant James F. Walsh was awarded the Combat Infantry Badge, a Purple Heart, and a Bronze Star for his service in Korea. He was Honorably Discharged from the US Army in January 1957.
Walsh enrolled at Notre Dame University in January 1953. In March 1954 he was the School’s Heavyweight Boxing Champion. In January 1955 Notre Dame awarded him a BA, Cum Laude, and a year later a MA in Correctional Administration. In June 1960, Wayne State University (Detroit, MI) awarded him a Masters in Social Work; in June 1975, the University of Missouri, Kansas City, awarded him a Juris Doctor Degree.
Walsh married Jo Ann Myers in September 1955 at Notre Dame and lives in Culver, IN. They had five children: Jim, Kate, Sue, Mike, and Dan. Son Mike, age 50, died in 2013. JoAnn, age 84, died in 2020.
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From 1955 to the present. Walsh worked as a City Court Probation Officer (South Bend, IN); a Juvenile Court Probation Officer, (Wayne County, Detroit, MI); Supervisor of Probation Officers, (Montgomery, County, Dayton, OH); Director of Catholic Social Services, (South Bend, IN); Director of the Jackson County Jail (Kansas City, MO); Director of Jackson County Juvenile Court Services (Kansas City, MO); Director of the Missouri Department of Social Services (Jefferson City, MO); General Counsel, Money Concepts International; and currently as a Writer. He has published in professional journals, in popular magazines, and in novels: Killers From a Distance (Combat in Korea); Land Of Last Life (Nursing Homes Mystery); and books: A Lot Of Bull (Back Acre Humor); and The Leprechauns of Union Township (Children Fantasy).
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He was honored by the Notre Dame Club of Kansas City as its 1974 Man Of the Year and on Law day with the Liberty Bell Award, from the Missouri Young Lawyers Association. The Missouri Juvenile Justice Association honored him for his outstanding contributions to the Juvenile Justice System.
CONTACT
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