Author Book Talk and Signing – Jim Turner
Historian and author Jim Turner is returning to Sun City West. The book talk and signing is on February 10, 2026, at 2:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall of the RH Johnson Rec Center (19803 N. R.H. Johnson Blvd. ). Doors will open at 1:20 p.m. for residents with a valid Rec Card and their guests and at 2 p.m. for the general public. Jim Turner’s Last Book SigningRio Nuevo Publishers sold its business in 2025 so this may be Jim Turner’s last book signing. He started editing for them in 2009 and rewrote parts of Native Roads in 2013. He traveled to write The Mighty Colorado River from the Glaciers to the Gulf in 2016 and hit the road again for Crater Lake: Land of Fire and Ice the following year. Then he wrote Four Corners USA and finally Arizona: A History of the Grand Canyon State in 2021. That book contains more historic pictures than any other Arizona history book. Jim will be highlighting his favorite locations and telling stories from those wonderful road trips. Jim Turner earned his master’s in U.S. History at the University of Arizona and worked as Historian for the Arizona Historical Society for eight years where he worked with more than 70 local museums across the state. He retired and became an author/editor for Rio Nuevo publishers where he authored six books and co-authored or edited a dozen more. He is working on two more books and has produced self-guided audio tours of historic downtown Tucson, Tombstone, and Old Town Scottsdale for a GPS-directed app called VoiceMap.
