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John Sandford was born John Camp on February 24, 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He attended public schools in Cedar Rapids and graduated from Washington High School in 1962. He was in the U.S. Army from 1966 to 1968, worked as a reporter at the Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian from 1968 to 1970, and returned to the University of Iowa in 1970-1971 to earn a master's degree in journalism.
He worked as a journalist for The Miami Herald from 1971 to 1978, and then for the St. Paul Pioneer-Press from 1978 to 1990; in 1980 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, which he won in 1986, with a series of reports on the agricultural crisis in the American Midwest.
Since 1990 he has dedicated himself to writing thrillers. He has also published two non-fiction books, one on plastic surgery and the other on art.
It is the main funder of a major archaeology project in Israel's Jordan Valley, with a website in www.rehov.org.
In addition to archaeology, he is very interested in art (painting) and photography.
Also hunting and fishing.