ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Les Edgerton is a full-time writer and writing teacher. He formerly taught creative writing in the famed UCLA Extension Writers Program, was the writer-in-residence at the University of Toledo for three years and enjoyed the same position for a year at Trine University. He obtained a B.A. from Indiana Universy and an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. Currently, he teaches creative writing classes online for Writer’s Digest and Phoenix College and is in demand nationally for writer’s workshops and conferences. Les lives in Ft. Wayne, Indiana with his wife Mary, a talented hairdresser, and their son Michael Bud. Les has two daughters, Britney and Sienna, from a former marriage.

He is an ex-con, having served over two years at Pendleton Reformatory on a 2-5 sentence for second-degree burglary back in the late sixties. He is completely reformed now and you can have him over for dinner at your house and won’t have to count the silverware when he leaves...

Edgerton has won 16 state hairstyling championships, co-hosted a Cox Cable TV show on fashion with Paul Cimino in New Orleans, and when he was the Artistic Director for the Snobs Salon in New Orleans, they were the hairstylists for the 1987 spring release fashion show for Liz Clairborne. He has held various jobs in not-so-ordinary lines of work, including working for an escort service (whose clients were older, wealthy women), a gambler, a drug user and dealer, and a singer in a rock band (very minor rock band... very minor singer...). He was also elected student body president for Indiana University at South Bend, was a sports reporter for the South Bend Tribune, performed in three stag movies and acted in an indie movie, drove a T-Bird at speeds over 120 mph down city streets in a police chase, and has been shot at more than once (and shot back) as well as being the victim of an attempted stabbing. All of these things (and others) happened at different times in his life if you thought he was just having a busy week.

He currently has nine books in print, including two writer’s how-tos, a novel, a collection of short stories, two baseball books, and three business books focused on the hair design business. He uses his criminal background to bring a verisimilitude to his novels that other writers sometimes lack.