J. David Chadwick is Sugar Ray Dodge. He is an American novelist, columnist and puppeteer. The son of a biblical archeologist, he hails from the Great State of Utah and fancies himself something of a world traveler and pompous blowhard. He has lived in Israel, Colorado, Germany, Iraq and Maryland. He is a former U.S. Army Recruiter and is a two-time Iraq War veteran. He was also TIME Magazine's 2003 and 2006 Person of the Year.