Richard Wiggins

Richard Wiggins is a former resident of very rainy Juneau, Alaska, who now lives in extremely dry Washoe Valley, Nevada, but still calls Alaska home from Panguingue Creek near Denali National Park.

After forty years of writing transportation planning documents, starting with local transit plans in small southeast Alaska towns, Mr. Wiggins has since discovered an unknown desire to tell stories about special people behind special places.

His first historical fiction novel, Ford’s Terror, is about Harry L. Ford for whom Ford’s Terror in southeast Alaska is named. Relying on his experiences living in Juneau for inspiration, Mr. Wiggins rarely enjoys the rainy weather he writes so longingly about.