Paul Colt

Readers say, pick-up a Paul Colt book, you can't put it down. Paul Colt historical novels crackle with authenticity. His analytical insight, investigative research and genuine horse sense bring history to life. His characters walk off the pages of history into the reader's imagination in a style that blends Jeff Shaara's historical dramatizations with Robert B. Parker's gritty dialog. Paul Colt history entertains and informs. Paul writes Action Adventure, western style.

Paul's Grasshoppers in Summer was recently recognized with a coveted Will Rogers Medallion Award. Grasshoppers in Summer and Friends Call Me Bat are Western Writers of America Spur Award honorees. His Boots and Saddles a Call to Glory received the Marilyn Brown Novel Award, presented by Utah Valley University. Publisher's Weekly calls it "...a stunning success."

His work in western fiction gives creative expression to a life long love of the west. Paul grew up as comfortable on the back of a horse as most kids are on a bicycle. He gets his boots dirty researching a story, whenever possible from the back of a horse.