Her after school hours were spent at his elbow, researching and retyping his manuscripts. She literally learned from a master of story telling. Johnstone, niece and literary heir to William Wallace Johnstone began as the chief typist, researcher, fact checker, and all around assistant to her uncle. They are a combination of his much loved western ranch themed books, of which there are hundreds, and his horror and military/survivalist books were legend widely appreciated and accepted. Johnstone and his heirs have published over 60 different series of stories. In the early 1980’s he began writing full-time in earnest he had over two hundred books published with several popular and best-selling series including the Ashes series and the Mountain Man series until he passed away in 2004. He started writing books in 1970 and eventually was published in late 1979 and became best known for for his western, survivalist, and horror novels. Working as a deputy sheriff, then a hitch in the army, he came back home and started a to work in radio broadcasting. Quitting school at the age of fifteen, he joined a carnival, later in 1957 he returned to finish high school. Johnstone was the youngest of four children. Born in 1938 in Southern Missouri, William W.
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