Paul Cool

Paul Cool, who lives in Arizona, writes about people and events in the American Southwest. He is drawn to stories of ordinary people navigating times of economic dislocation, political and legal corruption, criminal violence, ethnic tension, and media manipulation, largely ignored stories from the U.S.-Mexico borderlands that have relevance today. SALT WARRIORS, his first book, won the 2007 Robert A. Calvert Book Prize, was named a Southwest Book of the Year for 2008 (Borderlands Regional Library Association), and earned an Honorable Mention for the 2009 Tejano Book Prize. Paul's second book, THE GIRL IN THE IRON BOX, about the 1934 kidnapping of June Robles of Tucson, the first nationally notorious crime that J. Edgar Hoover's G-Men were unable to solve, is now being shopped with publishers. Paul is now writing the third book in his Southwest border trilogy, PIRATES OF THE MADREAN SKY ISLANDS.