H. Stuart Hotchkiss is the award-winning author of Baker Vaughan: A Novel (2026) as well as his memoir, Southern Fried Fiction (2015).

He is a former publishing chief who served as executive creative director of Time Inc. and president of Time Home Entertainment Inc. He is also past president of the Direct Marketing Association of Washington.

His first published work, “The Biological Crosswords,” was released when he was sixteen (1971). It was included in the curriculum for every public high school biology teacher in the state of Virginia.

Hotchkiss served as an Adjunct Professor at New York University, teaching a course called “Creatine and Media Strategies.”

A native of Richmond, Virginia, Hotchkiss now lives in Boise, Idaho, where he lives with his live, Lisa.