Franscell, Ron


1957 -

Beaumont TX 77706
franscellr@aol.com
www.ronfranscell.com
Ron Franscell's THE DARKEST NIGHT

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 mass-market paperback under a new title, THE DARKEST NIGHT.

Franscell is now a contributing editor of the Beaumont (Texas) Enterprise, a 60,000-circulation Hearst daily. Before that, he was 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 is now working on his fourth book.

Categories

Fiction
Nonfiction
Wyoming Subjects

Titles

  • 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.
  • FALL: The Rape and Murder of Innocence in a Small Town (January 2007). New Horizon Press. ISBN: 0882822799.
  • THE DEADLINE: A mystery (1999). Write Way Publishing. ISBN: 1885173733.
  • ANGEL FIRE: A novel (1998). Laughing Owl Publishing (Reissue: Berkley/Penguin Putnam 2000). ISBN: 0965970124.

Speaking/Signing Engagements

Accepts speaking engagements.
Contact: franscellr@aol.com

Upcoming appearances

May 16: Interview 1 p.m. CDT with Dennis Griffin at BlogTalkRadio.com. Click here to listen.

May 23: Interview 8-9 a.m. CDT with WVLK-590 in Lexington KY. Click here to listen.

June 21: Signing 3-5 p.m. CDT, Barnes & Noble, San Pedro Crossing, San Antonio TX

June 28: Signing 1-3 p.m. CDT, Barnes & Noble, Parkdale Mall on Dowlen Road, Beaumont TX


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