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John L. Lansdale

Author

Bio

John L. Lansdale was born and raised in East Texas. He is married to the love of his life Mary. They have four children. He is a retired Army reserve Psychological Operations Officer and a combat veteran with numerous medals and awards. Past roles include inventor, country music songwriter and performer, and television programmer. He produced and directed the Television Special "Ladies of Country Music." He has also produced several albums in Nashville, hosted his own radio shows and won awards for producing and writing radio and television commercials. He was a writer and editor of a business newspaper. He has worked as a comic book writer for Tales from the Crypt, IDW, Grave Tales, Cemetery Dance and several more. He co-authored the Shadows West and Hell's Bounty novels with his brother Joe R. Lansdale. He is also the author of Horse of a Different Color, Slow Bullet, Zombie Gold, When the Night Bird Sings, Broken Moon, Long Walk Home, The Last Good Day and several other titles.

John L. Lansdale Books

Slow Bullet II book cover

Slow Bullet II

John L. Lansdale
Broken Moon book cover

Broken Moon

John L. Lansdale
The Complete Files of Detective Thomas Mecana book cover

The Complete Files of Detective Thomas Mecana

John L. Lansdale
Hell's Bounty book cover

Hell's Bounty

Joe R. Lansdale
The Last Good Day book cover

The Last Good Day

John L. Lansdale
Zombie Gold book cover

Zombie Gold

John L. Lansdale
Beyond Imagination book cover

Beyond Imagination

John L. Lansdale
The Box book cover

The Box

John L. Lansdale
Kissing the Devil book cover

Kissing the Devil

John L. Lansdale
Long Walk Home book cover

Long Walk Home

John L. Lansdale
Twisted Justice book cover

Twisted Justice

John L. Lansdale
Emergency Christmas book cover

Emergency Christmas

John L. Lansdale
Horse of a Different Color book cover

Horse of a Different Color

John L. Lansdale
Slow Bullet book cover

Slow Bullet

John L. Lansdale
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