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= Ernest Walter Dempsey III = "Ernest Walter Dempsey III (born November 12, 1975) is an American author. Among his works are the Sean Wyatt, Adriana Villa, Relic Runner, Adventure Guild, Paranormal Archaeology Division, and Beta Force series. His books have sold more than one million copies. Dempsey made the USA Today Bestseller List in 2017 for the first time. Dempsey also donates a portion of book proceeds to charities."

EARLY LIFE:
"Dempsey was born on November 12, 1975, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the son of Beth (Stephens), a school teacher, and E.W. Dempsey, a physical education teacher. The family were middle-class and of Irish descent. He graduated from Southern Adventist University in 2000 with a B.S. in psychology, and in 2003 with an M.S. in School Counseling."

CAREER:
"Dempsey initially started college at Southern Adventist University as an English major, but after two years changed his major to psychology. He worked for twelve years as a high school guidance counselor in the Dalton Public Schools system in Dalton, Georgia. During that time, he began writing his first novel, The Secret of the Stones, in 2007, which he first published in 2011. This was the first book in the Sean Wyatt series, which features a former covert agent who now works for the International Archaeological Agency in Atlanta, Georgia. The Sean Wyatt novels are his most popular, bestselling published works, and in 2017 The Uluru Code made it on the USA Today Bestseller list. His books have sold approximately one million copies worldwide, and has published more than forty stories. In 2021, Ernest’s novel, The Second Sign, was nominated for an Independent Audiobook Award with narrators John Pirhalla and Stephanie Nemeth Parker."

PERSONAL LIFE:
Dempsey, his wife Megan Sticher, and their daughter Arden live in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Category:Novelists Category:Writers