Bio

Vincent S. Anderson is a ninth-generation Ozarkian. He was born in Mountain Home, Arkansas, and raised on the Arkansas-Missouri state line in Ozark County, Missouri. After graduating from Gainesville High School, he served in the U.S. Air Force at Little Rock Air Force Base.

In 2006, Vincent earned a Bachelor of Science in Education from Arkansas State University and was named ASU–Mountain Home Alumni of the Year in 2007. His first book, Bald Knobbers: Chronicles of Vigilante Justice, was published in 2013. In 2016, Governor Asa Hutchinson appointed him to the Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park Advisory Commission. He completed his graduate degree in American History from American Military University in 2018.

A former columnist for The Baxter Bulletin, Vincent has worked as a historical consultant with media companies since 2010. Recently, he consulted for New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Green on research into the white supremacist, militia sect – The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA). His work contributed to a 40-year retrospective on the group's 1985 standoff with 300 FBI agents and local law enforcement in Marion County, Arkansas, which led to the CSA's dissolution.

Currently, Vincent is the historian and teacher at the Baxter County Library in Mountain Home, Arkansas. He enjoys leading historical Ozarks tours for private and civic groups. He also hosts a weekly radio show, Retracing Our Roots, on KTLO in Mountain Home.

Vincent lives in Baxter County, Arkansas.