John Christian Hopkins is a member of the Narragansett In-dian Tribe, a descendant of King Ninigret, patriarch of the tribe's last hereditary royal family. Hopkins is a career journalist who has worked at newspapers across New England, in New York, Florida, most recently in Ar-izona. He was a former nationally syndicated newspaper col-umnist for Gannett News Service. As a child Hopkins slept clutching books to his chest and dreamed of becoming an author. "I've never wanted to do any-thing else but write," Hopkins said. Though proud of his native heritage-among his ancestors was Quadrequina, brother to Massasoit and the one that intro-duced popped corn to the Pilgrims at the First Thanksgiving-Hopkins is determined not to be pigeon-holed as a native author, but as an author who happens to be Native American. He and his wife Sararesa live on her Navajo reservation in Arizona. His blog: www.authorjohnchopkins.blogspot.com