H Lee Barnes, memoirist, novelist and short story writer, is the author of ten books. His short works have received the Willamette Fiction Award and the Arizona Authors Assn. fiction prize. He was inducted in 2009 into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame and in 2013 received an excellence in the arts award from the Vietnam Veterans of America for his body of works. His varied carriers include his working as a deputy sheriff, a private investigator, a narcotics agent, a casino dealer and a college professor. He now lives in the Hualapai Valley in Northern Arizona.
