Donald Robert Wilson
Donald Robert Wilson has published three novels, The Bucket Flower, Beware the Barracuda, and his recent release, Kovacs' War. All three are available on Amazon. His writing has been a hobby ever since high school, but serious, roll-up-your sleeves writing never took hold until retirement from education.
After a little more than three years in the U.S. Navy near the end of World War II, Wilson earned degrees from the University of Connecticut and later enrichment courses from the University of Singapore, Central Connecticut State College, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Bridgewater State College, the University of New Hampshire and Florida Gulf Coast University.
After receiving his first college degree, Wilson taught English and Social Studies for sixteen years. He then spent one year as an audio-visual director, and one as an assistant principal before becoming a middle school principal for his remaining twenty-four years in education.
Wilson and his wife Regina have two grown daughters, Jeanne and Christine. After retirement Mr. and Mrs. Wilson moved to Southwest Florida. He continues to write novels, but most of his time is spent living a normal residential life with a little tennis and shuffleboard thrown in. In the last fifteen years the Wilsons have added cruising to their activities and have enjoyed numerous sails to Europe and the Caribbean.
Upon moving to Florida, the Everglades captured Wilson's interest and resulted in The Bucket Flower, a novel about a young, spoiled Bostonian lady who gets lost in the Everglades in 1893. The novel, Beware the Barracuda, was stimulated by the unexplained presence of a multitude of millionaires living along the coasts of Florida in mansions and plush high rises. Did all of them earn their money honestly? The recently released Kovacs' War, a novel of a Foreign Correspondent's life during World War I, is Wilson's latest. His plans are to complete a prequel to this book about Peter Kovacs' early years as a beginning reporter during the Spanish-American War, entitled The Counterfeit Correspondent.
