Robin Knowles

Who is Robin Knowles?

I’m a native Floridian, a boomer baby, frequently sunburned, a fan of – grandchildren, dogs, horses, any gun used for sporting purposes (but not so much a fan of the NRA), boats of almost any kind, fishing, and clear blue water. I’m a USF grad.

I’ve had few favorite authors, Hemingway, Robert Ruark, and a few of the classics. Lately, I prefer Robert B. Parker to Patterson, primarily because of his sense of humor as well as the fact he didn’t need a co-author. A well written who-dunnit, a contemporary thriller, or even a well-written historical novel keep me going until my eyes burn and shut involuntarily.

I love short stories. I’m not too much a fan of fantasy, futuristic SCI-Fi, or completely implausible outcomes. Like Louis L’Amour, I believe that a true happening is a good subject for a story – short or long. Like all authors, I stretch the truth a bit. When I was a boy, the words TRAIN, SWORD, PIRATES, VOLCANOS, and AIRPLANES got me going for hours of thinking. They still do.

Cemeteries fascinate me. Occasionally a tombstone inscription tells me a story in the shortest narrative possible.

I’m intrigued by unsolved riddles, unrighted wrongs, honorable old men, and kids who say the darndest things.