Robert Walton is a life-long rock-climber and mountaineer. His writing about climbing has been published in the Sierra Club's "Ascent". A dramatization of his story, "Three's a Crowd", was broadcast on KUSF on November 22nd, 2006 and subsequently on NPR. His Chaos Gate, a novel for young adults, won they 2010 Yorkshire Publishing competition and came out in October. Information about it is available at http://chaosgatebook.wordpress.com/ Most recently, his "Dogwood Dream" won first place in New Millennium Writing's 2011 short story contest. He and his wife Phyllis live in King City, California and have done so for forty years.
Favorite Author(s)
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Dostoevsky, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Dickens, Tony Hillerman, Patrick O'Brien
Favorite Book(s):
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The Brothers Karamazov, The Hobbit, Moby Dick, Oliver Twist
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