The Fifth Skull: A Historical Novel of the Civil War and the American West
Terrell T. Garren was born in Asheville, North Carolina, on July 5, 1951. He graduated from T.C. Roberson High School in 1969. He earned his BS and MA degrees from Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. Garren is a U.S. Army veteran and a former public school administrator. He was administrative assistant to former U.S. Rep. James McClure Clarke and served during three congressional terms. He has been a commercial writer. He is the author of The Secret of War: A Dramatic History of Civil War Crime in Western North Carolina (2004), which has become a regional best-seller with over 5000 copies in print, and Mountain Myth: Unionism in Western North Carolina (2006). He currently resides in Henderson County, North Carolina.