Born on July 13, 1941, in Waxahachie, Texas, to a sharecropper's daughter and a frequently far away father, Andrew never gave up on his dreams. When he was a small boy reading his Uncle Ollie’s copies of the Saturday Evening Post, his love for writing began. In High School, Andrew's English teacher, Mrs. G. E. Ramsey, Sr., introduced him to Shakespeare, Thoreau, Faulkner, and the power of words and sentences.

When Andrew isn’t writing, he is reading. His enjoyment of writing never ends. He says, “I plan to continue writing WEIRD, BIZARRE and UNUSUAL as long as I have at least one eye, one finger, and enough brain left to do research on subjects as old as recorded history, to those as modern as today's news.”