Many of his male characters are fraught with contradictions and emotional problems, many of which they are only forced to face.
Yet despite the action-filled nature of his stories, he is commended for his independent and fully-developed female characters and unstereotypical portrayal of Western male characters. His love for nature and wildlife is captured perfectly in his Joe Pickett character, going through adventures in the Mountain West, Yellow Stone, Big Horn Mountains, and a number of other settings.ĭespite his interest in the dangers of nature and the fragility of human relations, he claims that he “want(s) to write about real people and different points of view.” His writing stresses the importance of research and the believability of his characters and the situations they find themselves in. He spends his time writing in a four-acre piece of land in Riverside, 20 miles south of Saratoga. He and his wife then proceeded to start a tourism business, the Rocky Mountain International, which became a huge success because of their innovative ideas on promoting the Rocky Mountain area. He spent a few years as a small town newspaper reporter and sports editor for the Saratoga Sun. After concluding his formal education, he looked for agents to help him in pursuing a literary career, many of which led to disappointments. Aside from writing, Box was a ranch hand, fishing guide, and a surveyor. After finishing his high school studies, he went to the University of Denver where he also entered the college newspaper. His presence in the paper led to the school paper winning national awards.
His interest in writing brought him to his high school’s newspaper, in which he became the editor. Being exposed to a world of letters at a young age, with his father being an elementary school principal and his mother teaching at the Wyoming School for the Deaf, Box developed an interest in reading despite their family having no bookshelves of any sort. He belongs in a clan of third-generation Wyomites. Personal Lifeīox was born and raised in Casper, the oldest of his three siblings. His novels have sold more than 3 million copies in the US and has been translated to 27 languages, including German, French, Japanese, Portugese, to name a few. During breaks from his writing, Box is a fisher, hunter, skier and hiker, excelling both in his literary and extra-literary pursuits. He has served as one of members of the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo’s Board of Directors. Distinguished for his relentless style of writing, action-packed and gripping stories and his trademark cowboy image, Box is a man of the outdoors, and is a rodeo enthusiast. Box lives with his wife Laurie and three daughters, Becky, Roxanne and Laurie, just outside of Cheyenne.
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Box is an American best-selling writer, author of seventeen novels and best known for his series of books, the “Joe Pickett” series.
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