During
a multifaceted career, Ken Englade has worked as a reporter, photographer,
war correspondent, news editor, rewrite man, news manager, columnist,
freelance magazine writer, historical novelist, and non-fiction book author
in nine countries on three continents. His stories
about
human tragedy, big business, legal issues, interesting places, and
fascinating people have appeared in newspapers around the world and
in dozens of magazines. Almost two million copies of his books have
been printed in this country, and in Great Britain, Germany, and
Japan. |
| The facility
to weave a tale accurately, completely, and compellingly is a goal Englade
has been perfecting since he took his first newspaper job in 1960, fresh
out of journalism school at Louisiana State University. From a small semi-weekly
in the Cajun community of Thibodaux, Englade moved to United Press International's
Baton Rouge bureau and the hectic world of wire service reporting. From
there, his horizons expanded to bureaus in New Orleans, Albuquerque,
and UPI's world headquarters in New York ... to Southeast Asia, where
he was a war correspondent in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos (he and another
UPI reporter were the last two newsmen to
leave Saigon before it fell to the Communists) ... to Southern Africa,
where he worked as a freelancer in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), South Africa,
and Southwest Africa (now Namibia). |
| After twenty-one
years in newspaper and wire service journalism, wearing at various
times, the hats of reporter, photographer, news editor, rewrite man, news
bureau manager, and columnist, Englade segued first into magazines, writing
mainly about politics, business, legal, and social issues for such
publications as The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, the American Bar
Association Journal, Across the Board (the Conference Board publication),
Fortune,
Maclean's of Canada, and Nikkei Business of Tokyo, and then
into books. |
| In the last
decade Englade has published nine non-fiction books plus six works of fiction,
including five historical novels dealing with the pre-Civil War West,
a series endorsed by Tony Hillerman. Some 2 million copies of his books
have been printed in five countries and three languages. |
| His true-crime
books have dealt with cases ranging from the nationally infamous (e.g.
Hot
Blood, the story of Helen Brach and a related series of murders of
expensive thoroughbred horses) to the somewhat obscure (such as Beyond
Reason, which chronicled a murder plot involving two University of
Virginia students). |
| A respected
expert on crime and criminals, Englade has appeared, among others, on Larry
King Live, Philadelphia's AM Live, Geraldo, and the Milt Rosenberg Show
in Chicago. He also was featured in a thirty-minute TV special on the case
revealed in Beyond Reason, which was produced and aired by
the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. |
| A
native of Memphis, Englade grew up in New Orleans, and has lived in more
than a dozen cities on three continents. He now resides with his wife,
Heidi, in Corrales, New Mexico. |
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Beyond Reason
| "...This is a riveting
story, including drugs, sex, incest, intercontinental con games, and detective
work -- and the story of an aristocratic family destroyed by murder and
madness." -- Chicago Tribune |
| ... Like so many true-crime
epics, Englade's account offers pleasure on two levels: following the carefully
orchestrated investigation and marveling at the seemingly insurmountable
problems of being a rich kid." -- Booklist |
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