An Accidental Novelist

At mid-life Richard Wheeler never dreamed of writing fiction. By his early seventies, he had published over sixty novels and made his entire living from writing popular fiction. A series of employment crises as a young newsman and book editor forced him to turn to a new way to make a living-- and he chose fiction.

At first he wrote westerns, but swiftly turned to large-scale historical novels, and then biographical novels, a field he had almost to himself. He wrote popular fiction, and was w...