Jonathan's book, The Taster, was published in 2008. Struggling with dyslexia and learning disabilities, Jonathan W. Hickman grew up watching movies and learning to read. By high school, Jonathan had learned to read well enough to complete comic books and to skim larger works of fiction. He found text books and non-fiction to be easier to manage given their layout and devoured them staying up all night before an exam to digest every word of text. Eventually, he graduated as valedictorian and went onto college at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, where he achieved degrees in English and Political Science.