James is an American expatriate. He studied German Language and Literatureat Michigan State University from 1977 to 1983. He graduated den with a Bachelor of Arts. Later he studied for Master degree at the FernUni Hagen and received his Master of Arts in Europäische Moderne: Geschichte und Literatur. James has lived and worked since 1983 in Niedersachsen in Germany. He has also been trained since as a Nurse in Germany and as Book Merchant.