Alex Gabbard

Following my interests has become my writing, achieving both continued learning and story telling that has resulted in 35 published books, among them 3 receiving "Book of the Year" awards from international competition ("Vintage & Historic Racing Cars" that also received a Moto Award for photography, "Fast Fords" for automotive history, and "Gaspee" for Mainstream Literary Fiction awarded by Writer's Digest magazine). Another of my books was a "Freedom Book of the Month" selection ("Blood of the Roses" that also received Henry Hazlett Foundation recognition, now a Kindle selection), and "Return to Thunder Road" that has become a multi-printing favorite (all available from Amazon). These topics are among many presentations that I have conducted for many organizations spanning many years, most originating from my books of strong historical themes.

With a lifelong interest in expression by the written word, my published work spans more than four decades of magazine and newspaper features covering current events to international travel while also an award winning photographer. My books of illustrated non-fiction ("INDY's Wildest Decade", available from Amazon, and "NASCAR's Wild Years" now out of print), pure fiction ("Checkmate" and "Stories: Fact and Fiction" both Kindle selections). Among historical fiction compositions, ("Gaspee", "I Am Gisele: Empress", Alec & Flora: The Story of a family", "Schwaigern", and now "Devil Bullet" are Amazon and Kindle selections). I have achieved my personal goal of continued learning with several more books in process to continue my life's quest. "Stories: Travel USA" is my 2nd volume in my "Stories" series and "Stories: Travel" (outside USA) is the 3rd book in the series. Eight subsequent volumes of "Stories" comprise my compilations of automotive history along with two "Stories" volumes of interviews with famous racing personalities of the last half-century.

Much has been written about my various works, ranging from science (now a retired physicist and past Top Secret nuclear weapons operative as told in "Adventures of an H-Bomb Mechanic, The Story of a Top Boomer" (available from Amazon). Currently a speaker on many topics and continuing to compose on topics of genealogy, Civil War, ancestry, travel, and works of both fiction and non-fiction, I forecast active years to come producing works for wide readership along with the potential of books to film, an exciting prospect.

My short bio reads: farm boy who grew up in the Southern story-telling tradition who went off to college (Mechanical Engineerig); then was drafted into the Viet Nam conflict at twenty to become a Top Secret Q-Crypto cleared nuclear weapons expert by twenty-one; returned to college afterwards (Atomic Physics); spent a career doing research in civilian applications of energy at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory; wrote lots of stuff along the way; and now enjoys retirement restoring his old cars and writing about interests.