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 20 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 from 1968 and exclusively with past-life therapy and regression work from 1979. She studied the various hypnosis methods and thus developed her own unique technique which enabled her to gain the most efficient release of information from her clients. Dolores also taught her unique technique of hypnosis all over the world.

In 1986, she expanded her investigations into the UFO field. She has done on-site studies of suspected UFO landings, and has investigated the Crop Circles in England. The majority of her work in this field has been the accumulation of evidence from suspected abductees through hypnosis.

Dolores was an international speaker who lectured on all the continents of the world. Her thirteen books are translated into twenty languages. She spoke to radio and television audiences worldwide. And articles about/by Dolores have appeared in several U.S. 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.

Dolores Cannon died on October 18, 2014.