Kristin
Gilpatrick has had a passion for writing since she can remember, scribbling bits
of poems and prose on notebooks and napkins since elementary school. With a strong
interest in military history and heroes, she is the author of The Hero Next Door
series, including The Hero Next Door, The Hero Next Door Returns and The
Hero Next Door Korea (Fall 2003). She also is the author of Famous Wisconsin
Film Stars, Footprints in Courage and Destined to Live. She lives in
Monona, Wisconsin with her husband, Steve Halverson.
Hannah
Heidi Levy, the author of Famous Wisconsin Mystics, is a graduate of the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. She
is a licensed clinical social worker and practices in the field of addictions
in Madison, Wisconsin. Prior to this work, she worked as a clinical microbiologist
for eighteen years and a blood bank supervisor for three years. She has published
fiction and nonfiction for various publications, written a weekly newspaper column,
and lectured on creative writing at area schools. Her other interests are art,
anthropology, antiques, and Greek mythology. She has two sons and two cats, uses
her intuition, and tries not to whine.
Called
a “premiere ghost hunter” by Haunted Wisconsin author Michael Norman and
designated the “folktale man” by Wisconsin Trails magazine, Dennis Boyer is the
author of four books of ghost tales, including Gone Missing, Driftless Spirits,
Giants in the Land and Northern Frights. He also is the author of Prairie
Whistles, a collection of Midwest railroad lore, and a guidebook called Great
Wisconsin Taverns.
Susan
Masino is a veteran music journalist and author of the book Rock ’n’ Roll Fantasy.
She works as a disk jockey at Madison radio station WJJO. She is the author of
Famous Wisconsin Musicians, the third book in the Famous Wisconsin Series,
and Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy, a book about her experiences as a music journalist
with the band AC-DC.
Betty Cowley
is a retired teacher who began researching her book, Stalag Wisconsin: Inside
WW II prisoner-of-war camps, after her students didn't believe that German
prisoners were held in their hometown of Altoona, Wisconsin. When her book was
released in early 2002, she was interviewed on National Public Radio's "All Things
Considered" and an announcement of the book's release appeared in USA Today.
Father
Dale Grubba is a Roman Catholic priest based in Princeton, Wisconsin. His avid
interest in auto racing led him to write several books on the subject including
The Golden Age of Wisconsin Auto Racing. He also is the author of the fiction
book Return of Elijah: A Wisconsin Dells Thriller!
James
P. Roberts is an author and book publisher who specializes in science fiction
and horror novels. He publishes books under the White Hawk Press imprint and also
wrote Famous Wisconsin Authors, the first book in the Famous Wisconsin
Series.
Gunnard
Landers of Altoona is a nationally published author of a series of mystery novels
with game wardens as protagonists. His non-fiction book, Pioneer Vigilante,
dramatizes the life of John Dietz, a popular hero of the early 20th Century who
stood up to the government and powerful logging companies in northern Wisconsin.
Steve
Fortney of Stoughton is a retired school teacher, former seminarian and author
of Heg: From Norwegian Immigrant to Civil War Hero, a fictional biography
of Hans Christian Heg; The Thomas Jesus, a book based on the research of
the Jesus Seminar; and The Gazebo, a novel about the struggle of progressives
in a small Wisconsin town.
David
Nyweide of Bloomington, Ill. was still in high school when his book "Plum Lake"
was published. Now, he's a student at Northwestern University. His book is about
hiking, canoeing and bicycling on family vacations in Wisconsin's Northwoods.
Jerry
Buss of Madison grew up in Withee, Wisconsin and always wondered about the house
with all the bullet holes where the Krueger brothers had their World War I standoff
with federal agents. His book, "A War of Their Own," is about that case. Jerry
is a model airplane enthusiastic who also enjoys hunting.
Paul
Kending, author of "Rivers Must Run," was a professor for 28 years at the University
of Wisconsin at Superior and is a former television weatherman. A world traveler
who has spent time in Thailand and other Asian countries, Paul and his wife, Candy,
now are avid RVers, spending summers in Wisconsin and winters in the Southwest.
Robert
"Bullet" Peterson, author of Rites of Passage: Odyssey of a Grunt, got
his nickname in high school due to his running ability. But he became a paraplegic
after he was wounded in the Vietnam War. His 1994 death in the arms of his wife,
Joni, culminated nearly a quarter century of remarkable successes and disheatening
struggle as he tried to cope with the unshakable experiences of combat service
in Vietnam.
After his death, Joni Peterson, a teacher, made it a personal goal to get Bullet's
book about Vietnam into print. The book, first published in softcover and hardcover
by Badger Books Inc. in 1996, was republished by Ballantine Books as a mass market
paperback and audiotape in 2001.
J.
Allen Kirsch is an instructor in Spanish literature at the University of Wisconsin
in Madison. Fluent in several languages, he also has lived in New Orleans in Tuscson.
"God's Little Isthmus" is his second novel about political correctness on Madison's
East Side. His critically acclaimed first novel, "Madlands," sold in general bookstores
in the upper Midwest and in gay and lesbian bookstores nationwide.
Jean
Clausen, author of "To Thank a River," writes a column titled "From the River
Bank" for the Sauk-Prairie Star. Her book focuses on her experiences living along
the Wisconsin River with her husband, Norm, who died several years ago. She takes
us cross country skiing, canoeing and mostly birding. She has four grown children.
Ken
Parejko grew up in a Polish-American farm family in central Wisconsin, where his
novel, "Remember Me Dancing," is set. He teaches biology at the University of
Wisconsin in Menomonie and "Remember Me Dancing," which draws liberally on his
family history, is his first novel.
Larry
W. Phillips lives in Monroe, Wis., where his family operates a furniture store.
"Covering the Second Coming" is his second novel. His first novel, "Madison Retro,"
was published by Waubesa Press in 1994. Larry also edited two books for Charles
Scribner's Sons, "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" and "F. Scott Fitzgerald on Writing."
He and his wife, Pam, have one daughter. His true passion is poker.
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