Ron Franscell

Franscell, Ron

1957 -

San Antonio TX 78258

www.ronfranscell.com

Biographical and Professional Information

Winner of the 1996 Wyoming Literary Fellowship and longtime Wyoming newspaperman, Ron Franscell's previously published novels include ANGEL FIRE (1998), listed by the San Francisco Chronicle among the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century West; and THE DEADLINE (1999), a taut mystery that was in the Poisoned Pen’s top 25 best crime fictions that year. His first nonfiction, "FALL: The Rape and Murder of Innocence in a Small Town" -- about a 1973 crime against two of his childhood friends in Casper, Wyo., where he grew up -- was released in January 2007. St. Martin's published the bestselling mass-market paperback under a new title, THE DARKEST NIGHT.

Upcoming books include OUTLAW TEXAS (November 2010, Globe Pequot), a travel guide to 400 crime-related sites in Texas, from pirate Jean Lafitte's Galveston house to the former Enron headquarters in Houston ... and DELIVERED FROM EVIL exploring the lives of 10 mass-murder survivors (January 2011, Fair Winds Press).

Franscell has most recently been an editor for Hearst Newspapers and a senior writer at the Denver Post, where he wandered the American West in search of stories about the region's evolving culture, society and economy. Shortly after Sept. 11, the Post dispatched him to cover the Middle East during the first few months of the war in Afghanistan.

Franscell is a graduate of Casper-Kelly Walsh (1975) and the University of Wyoming (1979). His daughter Ashley is now a photojournalist in Utah; son Matt is a student at the University of Nebraska.

Ron has recently finished SOURTOE, a nonfiction book about his extraordinary roadtrip with his son to the Arctic. He now lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Titles

OUTLAW TEXAS Coming November 2010 from Globe Pequot Press
DELIVERED FROM EVIL: Stories from Survivors of Harrowing Mass Killings Coming January 2011 from Fair Winds Press

THE DARKEST NIGHT: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder. and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town (March 2008). St. Martin's Press. ISBN: 0312948468.
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