Don Winslow Biography

New York Times bestselling author and Raymond Chandler award recipient Don Winslow has written seventeen novels including The Kings of Cool Savages The Winter of Frankie Machine The Force (2017) and the highly acclaimed epic The Power of the Dog
The son of a sailor and a librarian Winslow grew up with a love of books and storytelling in a small coastal Rhode Island town. He left at age seventeen to study journalism at the University of Nebraska where he earned a degree in African Studies. While in college he traveled to southern Africa sparking a lifelong involvement with that continent.
Winslow’s travels took him to California Idaho and Montana before he moved to New York City to become a writer making his living as a movie theater manager and later a private investigator in Times Square – ‘before Mickey Mouse took it over’. He left to get a master’s degree in Military History. Winslow was supposed to go into the Foreign Service but instead joined a friend’s safari firm in Kenya leading photographic safaris there as well as hiking trips in the mountains of southwestern China and directing Shakespeare on summer programs in Oxford.

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