A native Hoosier, GLEN CRANEY is a novelist, screenwriter, journalist, and lawyer. He caught the history bug as a boy while tracing the steps of his ancestors on Civil War battlefields and the reconstructed forts of the first Kentucky pioneers.
His travels around the world have found him playing baseball in Cuba, walking the biblical sites of Israel, exploring the Secret Vatican Archives in Rome, and climbing Templar castles in Scotland and France. His books have taken readers to Occitania during the Albigensian Crusade, to the Scotland of Robert the Bruce, to Portugal during the Age of Discovery, to the trenches of France during World War I, and to the American Hoovervilles of the Great Depression.
He graduated from Hanover College with a major in history and holds graduate degrees from Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. After a stint as a trial lawyer, he joined the Washington, D.C. press corps to write about national politics and cover the Iran-contra trial for Congressional Quarterly magazine.
In 1992, he moved to California to write movie scripts. His feature screenplay Whisper the Wind, about the Navajo codetalkers of World War II, was awarded the Nicholl Fellowship Prize by the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences for best new screenwriting. With the encouragement of his mentor, Hollywood legend Harry Essex, he tried his hand at historical fiction and mystery-thrillers, and has never looked back.
His debut historical novel, The Fire and the Light, was named Best New Fiction by the National Indie Excellence Awards. He is also a three-time indieBRAG Medallion Honoree, a Chaucer Award First-Place Winner, a three-time Foreword Reviews Book-of-the-Year Award Finalist, a Scéal Mystery-Thriller Award Finalist, a Nautilus Silver Award Winner, an IPPY Silver Award Winner, an Eric Hoffer Finalist and Honorable Mention Winner, a Da Vinci Eye Award Finalist, and a BTS Readers Choice Award Honorable Mention.
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What reviewers and readers are saying about Glen's books:
"One of the best and most memorable books I have ever read." — U.S. Marine veteran Nathan Mercer, Movies and Manuscripts
"Craney performs a valuable service by chronicling [the Bonus March] in this admirable book." — Donald Farinacci, Military Writers Society of America
"A brilliant novel that has taken my breath away.” — As The Final Page Turns
"If you love Steve Berry, Dan Brown, or Umberto Eco, you may have a new author favorite in Glen Craney." — Best Thrillers magazine
"[A] wonderful source of historical fact wrapped in a compelling novel." — Bryan Dumas, Historical Novel Society Reviews
"Craney has written an outstanding social and military historical novel of the United States covering the crossing over from the nineteenth century mentality into the twentieth century. Simply put, an outstanding novel." — Joseph Spuckler, Author Alliance reviewer and U.S. Marine veteran
"The best book I've read this year....Touched my Scottish-American warrior's heart." — John Graham, seneschal of the Society of Creative Anachronism
"The battle scenes are detailed and vivid, giving the reader a ringside seat at Scotland's desperate fight for freedom." — InD'tale Magazine
"I know of no other fiction writer who has made this brave, tragic protest movement the main theme of a novel, until now. Glen Craney deserves praise for recognizing the significance and dramatic potential of the Bonus Army story and developing it in The Yanks are Starving." — Ruth Latta, The Compulsive Reader Review
“[W]ell-researched, but more importantly for a novel, it tells a thoroughly engrossing story." — The Historical Novel Society
“[B]est historical fiction I have read in years. From beginning to end, there is not a dull moment." — To Read or Not to Read Reviews
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