Author: Chuck Lewis
Alternate names: None
Born: 1936
Bio: CHUCK LEWIS (1936-     ) is currently the author of seven books and a multitude of essays, but he has recently rid himself of most professional obligations and now simply does what he wants to, when he wants to. He was a long-time member of the Western Writers of America, and was also a contributing editor and non-fiction book reviewer for True West magazine every month for over six years. He is now an historical researcher for other writers, and is a monitor and western firearms expert for an internet western history forum. 

His family lived in Alaska Territory before it became a state, and Chuck homesteaded 160 acres there. During his lifetime he has been a semi-professional photographer, played guitar and sang with a country band, was a movie extra, was a cartographer (map maker), and was once a certified medical and psychiatric aide. He is also a U.S. Army veteran. 

Chuck had discovered Arizona in 1956, and had a 33-year career as a government branch chief there. Now he has been happily retired from it all for over two decades since 1991. He and his wife Pat live in Wickenburg, Arizona, and they have three adult children and five adult grandchildren, all Arizonans.