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When he was just a 10-year-old Birmingham kid, Jim Auker got a coveted Atomic Bomb Ring for the bargain price of 15 cents and a cereal box top. He eventually lost his toy promoted on the Lone Ranger radio show circa 1950, but he never forgot it. Now the 79-year-old Bingham Farms resident has recaptured both the ring and a remarkable childhood in Birmingham as a first-time author with his novel, “The Atomic Bomb Ring.” The tiny spinthariscope ring is one fantastic aspect of a book based on real events, places, and people from Auker s childhood in Birmingham. “It’s fiction, but part of it is based on my real life,” Auker said. “It’s a panorama of life at a certain time, a relevant look at the kids of the 50s in Birmingham.” ....
Birmingham author celebrates past in new novel Jim Auker, of Bingham Farms, based his first novel on his childhood growing up in the Birmingham area. Photo provided by Linda Ashley Public Relations Advertisement BIRMINGHAM/BINGHAM FARMS While a world of political tensions rages around him, for a young Birmingham boy, life’s toughest battles are the ones faced in the halls of his school, and sometimes, vicariously through the players on the field at Detroit’s Tigers Stadium. That’s the plot of a new work of fiction available from first-time novelist and Bingham Farms resident Jim Auker. “The Atomic Bomb Ring” is the story of an energetic, go-for-broke 10-year-old growing up in Birmingham circa 1950. ....