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Military Books
July 20, 2007 (San Dimas, CA). Military-Writers.com is a
website committed to listing
military personnel who have authored books. The
website added three former servicemembers who have written books:
Ronald Kay Rawlings;
Michael A. Crane; and,
Kent Anderson.
Ronald Kaye Rawlings honorably ended a tour of
the
US Army as a Military Policeman and began his
career as a Clayton Police Department (North Carolina) Police Officer. After
four and a half years as a Clayton Police Officer, he would pursue his life long
dream of being a North Carolina State Trooper. Although he was turned down
three times by the
North Carolina State Highway Patrol,
Ronald Rawlings would ultimately preserve in
his goal and complete a 26 year career. Ronald K. Rawlings retired from the
North Carolina State Highway Patrol as a
District First Sergeant and with a Master's Degree in Administration.
Ronald Kaye Rawlings is the author of A
Black Cop in the South. According to the book description, it is about
a fascinating true story involving a young black man who was raised in a large
single parent, southern family home in North Carolina. Ronald Kaye Rawlings is
the author and his dream as a young child was to be a North Carolina State
Trooper. He was able to achieve that goal and even more, but the road was filled
with pitfalls, disappointments, racism, and tragedy.
Michael A. Crane after serving in the
United States Marine Corps, he was an attorney,
a prosecutor and
police officer, with the
Oakland Police Department. He has published
numerous articles on the western peace officer and related topics in various
publications over the past several years. Crane has a J.D. Degree and a Master's
in History. His unique career experiences have placed him face to face with much
of the same political corruption and violence that animates his novel, A
Fistful of Thorns. His novel details remarkable and violent lives of
gunfighter Doc Holliday and his volcanic consort, Kate Elder.
At the age of 19
Kent Anderson joined the Merchant Marines and
traveled the world for two years. By his 23 birthday, he was a Special Forces
sergeant in Vietnam, where he was awarded two bronze stars. In 1973, he joined
the Portland Police Bureau, and worked as a street cop for 4 years before taking
a leave of absence to earn an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of
Montana in Missoula. At the age of 37, he returned to police work and joined
the
Oakland Police Department (California). After
two years on the
Oakland Police Department he resigned because
he was, sick of making unnecessary arrests to fill out the monthly quotas.
According to
Kent Anderson, that winter, broke and jobless,
out of sheer terror he wrote the first complete draft of Sympathy for the
Devil. Shortly thereafter, he obtained a teaching job in El Paso at the
University of Texas and rewrote the book several times during his four-year stay
on the border. He is also the author of Night Dogs and
Liquor, Guns and Ammo: The Collected Short Fiction and Non-Fiction of Kent
Anderson.
Military-Writers.com currently lists 36 current or former
military servicemembers and their 76 books.
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