Tony johnston author biography books
Tony johnston author biography books
Tony johnston biography.
Terry C. Johnston
American Western fiction author
Terry C. Johnston | |
|---|---|
| Born | ()January 1, Arkansas City, Kansas, U.S. |
| Died | March 25, () (aged&#;56) Billings, Montana, U.S. |
| Alma&#;mater | Central State University |
| Genre | Western fiction |
Terry Conrad Johnston[1] (1 January – 25 March ) was an American Western fiction author who wrote 31 novels and had more than 10 million books in print.[2]
Background
He was born in Arkansas City, Kansas.[3] His parents were a junior college president and a teacher.
He gained a BA from Central State University in Edmond, Oklahoma.[2] As a young man, he traveled and worked various jobs, all the while becoming a student of the Old West. Johnston published his first novel, Carry the Wind, in after it had been rejected by 29 publishers;[2] it won the Western Writers of America's Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award.[3] Johnston wrote his first novel while he worked as a leas