Loren D. Estleman

Loren D. Estleman is the author of more than eighty novels and two hundred short stories, as well as articles and books of nonfiction on a wide variety of subjects. His historical novels include Bloody Season, based on events leading to and from the gunfight at the O.K. Corral; This Old Bill, about the life of Buffalo Bill Cody; Aces & Eights, tracing the career of Wild Bill Hickok; The Ballad of Black Bart, about the notorious stagecoach bandit; The Eagle and the Viper, dramatizing a plot to assassinate Napoleon Bonaparte; and novels based on the lives of Judge Isaac Parker, Judge Roy Bean, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Al Capone, and Napoleon. He has been called the most critically acclaimed writer of his generation. Estleman is also the author of the Amos Walker detective series. At forty-five years and thirty-three books, it’s the longest-running single-author private eye series in publishing history. He has received more than twenty-five national awards, including three awards for lifetime achievement. He is a former Western Writers of America president and belongs to the Western Writers Hall of Fame. In 2002, Eastern Michigan University presented him with an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters. Estleman lives in Michigan with his wife, author Deborah Morgan.