Author

Gale Forbes

Gale Forbes often contends that he got into writing to scratch a persistent itch. The yen to write started before high school as he read books and accounts of WWII by Ernie Pyle, Winston Churchill, Richard Tregaskis, and others. Looking back, he calls it an awakening of the power of words.

After graduating from the University of Michigan School of Architecture, he gained recognition in his profession by writing essays and op-ed pieces for industry trade magazines. His style is to set the reader on his shoulder and witness the action as the scene unfolds.

Like most novice writers, he wrote short fiction with peers in different writing groups. He was a regular at the once-annual Women’s Writers Conference. When he turned his architectural practice over to others, he found success with short stories and then ventured into historical fiction with his first novel, Mother’s People, set in 1874, follows three generations of mothers confronted by the unforeseen acts of their children. Set in 1890, his second novel, Changing Times, follows the struggles of a third-generation fisherman as progress comes to his remote village. Uncertain Times, his third novel, picks up the story of Changing Time but twenty years later.

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