Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Rick DeStefanis is the author of eleven books. As a military veteran and former paratrooper who served with the 82nd Airborne Division from 1970 to 1972, his experiences predicate the seven-book Vietnam War Series. This collection of stand-alone novels includes three award-winners: The Gomorrah Principle, awarded the 2015 Readers' Favorite Award for military fiction, Valley of the Purple Hearts, awarded the 2017 Best Indie Book Award for literary fiction, and The Birdhouse Man, awarded the 2020 Gold Medal by the Military Writers Society of America. DeStefanis has also published a historical western series The Rawlins Trilogy as well as a southern novel "Tallahatchie."
