Dolores Cannon, a regressive hypnotherapist and psychic researcher who recorded "Lost" knowledge, was born in 1931 in St. Louis, Missouri. She was educated and lived in St. Louis until her marriage in 1951 to a career Navy man. She spent the next twenty years traveling all over the world as a typical Navy wife and raising her family. In 1970, her husband was discharged as a disabled veteran, and they retired to the hills of Arkansas. She then started her writing career and began selling her articles to various magazines and newspapers. She was involved with hypnosis beginning in 1968, and exclusively with past life therapy and regression work since 1979. She studied various hypnosis methods, then developed her own unique technique that enabled her to gain the most efficient release of information from her clients. Dolores's unique technique of hypnosis is now taught all over the world. In 1986, she expanded her investigations into the UFO field and visited various suspected UFO landings sites. She also investigated the crop circles in England. The majority of her work in this field is the accumulation of evidence from suspected abductees through hypnosis.

Dolores was an international speaker who lectured on all the continents of the world. Her seventeen books are translated into twenty languages. And articles about/by Dolores have appeared in several US and international magazines and newspapers. Dolores was the first American and the first foreigner to receive the "Orpheus Award" in Bulgaria, for the highest advancement in the research of psychic phenomenon. She received Outstanding Contribution and Lifetime Achievement awards from several hypnosis organizations. Her works continues through the efforts of Ozark Mountain Publishing.