Carlos Ledson Miller

NOVELS:

CARLOS LEDSON MILLER is the author of the historically-based action-adventure novels BELIZE and PANAMA. His third novel, STROKE, presents a young woman’s odyssey through the forbidding world of professional pool. His latest novel, FRENCH QUARTER DANNY, depicts a young man coming of age in New Orleans' notorious Vieux Carré.

MEMOIRS:

Carlos’ memoirs include SKIN OF MY TEETH--his four-year stint as a peacetime Marine, EARLY OUT--his two-year odyssey following his return to civilian life, and WHO SPEAKS FOR EARTH--his views on science versus faith.

ABOUT HIS WORK:

"A Rice University writing instructor once told me that for novels and memoirs to be good, they must be both entertaining and enlightening. My objective is to provide my readers with fast-paced, compelling narratives that give them an understanding of the unusual cultures and landscapes against which they are set.”

BACKGROUND IN RELATION TO BOOKS:

Carlos grew up in both Central America and the United States. His grandfather was one of the Americans who went to Panama in the early 1900s to dig the canal. Carlos' grandmother was Panamanian, and his father was a first-generation Canal Zonian. Carlos initially attended school in Panama. When he reached his teens, his father relocated to British Honduras (now Belize), and his mother returned home to the United States. Carlos attended high school and college in Louisiana and spent summers in Belize. After a four-year stint in the Marine Corps, Carlos settled on the Texas Gulf Coast, where he now lives, writes, and occasionally shoots pool.