Jim Newell is a Canadian writer who has been had careers as a broadcaster, air force officer, high school teacher, four time major award winner for column and editorial writing as a journalist and editor, columnist and feature writer for both a secular newspaper and Christian magazines. He has authored five books: two of them Christian novels, one a baseball novel, a collection of 80 daily meditations and an ebook collection of 14 short stories. Another ebook baseball novel is in the publishing process. His career has spanned more than 50 years of publishing. Since 1991 he has been confined largely to a wheelchair with Post-Polio Syndrome.

He was born in Maine, grew up and was educated in Nova Scotia, and has lived in many parts of Canada. He now lives in Waterloo, Ontario with his wife of more than 58 years and their six month old kitten, and where three of his four grown children and two granddaughters also live and work.