Donald Willerton
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Donald Willerton

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An award-winning author of fourteen books, Don Willerton has set most of his novels against the mountains, rivers, and canyons of the American West. Raised in the Panhandle of Texas, he picnicked where Kit Carson led his troops to the first battle of Adobe Walls in 1864, hunted arrowheads along the Canadian River, walked in swales made by pioneer wagons more than a hundred and fifty years ago, and adventured in the canyons of the Palo Duro. He has remained fascinated with the history of the Southwest and the people who made it. After a science degree in Texas, graduate work in Wyoming, and another degree in New Mexico, Willerton established his home in Los Alamos, working over the years as a physicist, computer programmer, manager, and information security leader. Along the way, he built a house, restored cars, backpacked in the mountains, rafted rivers, and helped raise three sons. Writing since the 1990s, he has produced ten books of the Mogi Franklin Mystery Series, which combines Southwest landscapes, history, and lore to create mysteries involving a middle-grade sleuth and his older sister; a supernatural suspense novel centered around an abandoned house that has a personality; a thriller combining the two problems of homelessness and ocean pollution; and a WWII novel of a young man’s war experiences set against the breakdown of his family life, based on the war itinerary of Willerton’s father. He now focuses on his children and grandchildren while continuing to use his imagination to write novels that challenge, entertain, and enlighten.
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