Frank Roderus

FRANK RODERUS wrote his first story, a western, at age five, and says he quite literally has never wanted to do anything else. He was writing fiction full-time since 1980, and was a newspaper reporter before that. As a journalist, he won the Colorado Press Association's highest honor, the Sweepstakes Award, for the Best News Story of 1980. His novel Leaving Kansas (Doubleday, 1983) won the Western Writers of America's Spur Award for Best Western Novel as did Potter's Fields. A life member of...See more

FRANK RODERUS wrote his first story, a western, at age five, and says he quite literally has never wanted to do anything else. He was writing fiction full-time since 1980, and was a newspaper reporter before that. As a journalist, he won the Colorado Press Association's highest honor, the Sweepstakes Award, for the Best News Story of 1980. His novel Leaving Kansas (Doubleday, 1983) won the Western Writers of America's Spur Award for Best Western Novel as did Potter's Fields. A life member of the American Quarter Horse Association, Frank is also a founding member of Western Fictioneers. See less