James Arthur Anderson's first published short story appeared in Andrew J. Offutt's Swords Against Darkness V anthology in 1979.
In 1997 he began using his complete name, James Arthur Anderson, in his by-line.
Anderson was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1955 and currently lives in Garfield, Georgia.
In 2023 he was named Professor Emeritus at Johnson & Wales University, where he had taught since 1984 until his retirement.
[2] In 2020 he published "Excavating Stephen King: a Darwinist Hermeneutic Study of the Fiction" with Rowman & Littlefield.