Robert Fate
Robert Fate was born Robert Fate Bealmear in 1935 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and lived there until he finished high school and joined the Marines. After his military service, he used his G.I. Bill to study at universities in California, Oklahoma, Greece, and France. During those years, he worked at many different jobs, but one thing remained constant-he wrote. He wrote poetry, short stories, magazine articles, journals, stage plays, TV and Motion Picture scripts, and finally the novel. It was a long, scenic road to novels, but he has found his home and says he will stray no more.
Robert Fate is a Marine Corps veteran who studied at the Sorbonne in France, and has worked as an oilfield roughneck and a TV cameraman in Oklahoma, a fashion model in New York City, and a chef at a chi-chi L.A. eatery-among other jobs. He has been rewarded for his efforts as a Hollywood F/X technician with an Academy Award for Technical Achievement.
He lives in Silver Lake near downtown Los Angeles with his wife, Fern, a ceramic artist. Their daughter, Jenny, is off being a student at USC. A dog, four cats, and a turtle named Pharrell are helping with the empty nest thing.
Baby Shark's HIGH PLAINS REDEMPTION, the third in his crime series, is in bookstores now. The official launch date is May 2008. He is writing novel number four, Baby Shark's JUGGLERS AT THE BORDER, to be released May 2009.
Robert Fate is a member of The Writers Guild of America - West; Mystery Writers of America; the Los Angeles and National chapters of Sisters In Crime; and the International Association of Crime Writers, North American Branch.
Kristin Van Dijk's bio has been requested. It will appear here some day.
CONTACT ROBERT FATE
robert-fate@sbcglobal.net
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