Ralph Cotton

Over the years I have coined myself "The World's Most Famous Unknown Author." I write Classic Western and Modern Crime fiction. I have been an author now for some thirty-odd years, and still enjoy my profession. My publishers have been and still are St. Martin's Press; Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, and most recently Cotton-Branch Publishing.) My jobs have been many. I am most proud of being a former Iron Worker, a Commercial Seaman / Second Mate. Teamster. Small Businessman and Lay Minister with the Lutheran Church Of America. I majored in Psychology. I learned to write via independent study and a long list of the Great American Authors whose work I continue to study with both awe and envy.