Harold Shuler, born summer of 1959 in Douglasville, Georgia, spent a few years in Augusta, Georgia, and then grew up in Cobb County, Georgia, where he attended South Cobb High School. He was the last of nine children, and his mother claims she ran out of names, so he was not honored with a given middle name. He has chosen a middle initial ‘G’ which stands for Gil, a shortened version of his mother’s maiden name—Gilstrap. Thus, H. G. Shuler is his pen name. After all, the storytellers were on his mother’s side of the family.

He now resides in a small rural town in North Georgia called Ellijay. This town reminds him of where he grew up, but which has lost that small-town feel as Metro-Atlanta engulfed it. Harold has told stories his entire life, as a youth to entertain family and as an adult to practice, for the moment he became a published author. He has yet to run out of material and plans to be busy for years to come.