Larry Buttram

Brief Bio of Larry Buttram

Personal

Larry Buttram was born in 1949 in Oneida, Tennessee. He graduated high school in 1967 and was married in 1969. Within the next three years he and his wife had two sons. He was divorced in 1974 and remarried in 1989. Today he and his wife have two sons and four grandchildren.

In 1981 Mr. Buttram was elected President of Reston Jaycees, and in 1982 was chosen one of the Outstanding Young Men in American. In 2008 he was elected president of the Northern Virginia Writers Club.

Work

In 1967 Mr. Buttram went to work for FBI in Washington, DC, delivering mail to J. Edgar Hoover. In 1968 he left the FBI and went to work for C&P Telephone. With the divestiture of the Bell System in 1983 he went to work for AT&T where he remained until his retirement in 1998. In 2000 he became an independent agent representing AFLAC Insurance Company.

Education

In 1988 Mr. Buttram received a Bachelors’ degree in Business Management from National Louis University.

Writing Experience/Accomplishments

Mr. Buttram started writing at the age of twelve when his English teacher challenged him to enter a school short-story competition. He entered and won the competition. He continued to write as a hobby during high school, and began a school newspaper when he was fourteen. He continued his writing throughout his career and has taken numerous writing and literature courses.

As an Account Executive for AT&T he completed dozens of bids and proposals in his career. He became the regions RFP (request for proposal) specialist, and developed training material for new employees.

He began work on his first novel, False Witness in 2003, and completed it in the summer of 2004. He completed the follow up to False Witness—Honor Thy Sister—in September, 2005, and released a book of short stories, The Greatest Gift in August, 2006. His third and final book in the False Witness, series, The Third Generation, was released in August, 2007. In 2008 he completed his first historical fiction novel, The Curtain Torn, about Robert Carter III, who freed more slaves than anyone in American history. His favorite writing related quote: When Mark Twain was told, late in his career, that he was a very good writer, he replied, “Well, I started out to be, but then I ran out of paper.”

Publicity

Mr. Buttram has appeared on numerous TV and radio programs discussing his books, and has been the subject of dozens of Newspaper articles.