James C. Work

James C Work is a western fiction author from Estes Colorado. He was born in the Fall River Valley, a small town several miles from the famous Este Park in Colorado. Work has always been interested in languages and literature and got his bachelors and masters from Colorado State University. For his doctorate, he studied literature and culture at the University of New Mexico. Once he graduated, he went on to work as a professor of creative nonfiction, nature writing, and Western literature at Colorado State University. It was supposed to be a transition role but he ended up teaching for more than three decades. It was during this time that his interest in Victorian poetry dissipated to be replaced by Western American fiction. Within a decade, he wrote a book that was then used as a textbook all across the United States and was then elected Western Literature Association president. Other offices he has held over the years include Rocky Mountain MLA Director and Colorado Seminars in Literature Executive Director. His other interests include etymology, archetypal mythology, and rhetoric. He published his debut novel Ride South to Purgatory in 1999 and has never looked back since. He currently has more than ten novels in the “Keystone Ranch” and the “Ranger McIntyre” series alongside several single standing novels, and several pieces of nonfiction.