Joseph A. West

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Joseph A. West


Born
Saltcoats, Scotland, The United Kingdom
Genre
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Westerns


Joe West was born and raised in the seaside town of Saltcoats in Scotland. At 19 he became a police officer, but soon turned his love of writing into a career as a journalist, working for the Daily Mirror in London among others. In 1972 West was recruited as a reporter for the National Enquirer, and began working in the United States. Traveling the world in search of stories, West almost froze to death on an Alaska mountain, and a spider bite nearly killed him in the Amazon rainforest. 'I swelled up like a balloon and turned a real pretty violet color,' he recalls.

Now a full-time novelist, West and his wife Emily reside in sunny Lake Worth, Florida, where he enjoys tamer pursuits like canoeing the alligator-infested swamps of the Everglades ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 1,858 ratings · 189 reviews · 49 distinct works • Similar authors
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Blood and Gold
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