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Skip Brooks comes to his first novel down a road as winding as the mountain trails he writes about. He grew up in Maryland and graduated from Baltimore Community College in 1963. He's always been a musician, trained on classical piano from age seven, played in local bands in the 1950's and performed as a solo act in local Folk Music Coffee Houses in the Early sixties. He moved to New York in 1965 and worked in the music business there until 1970 when the music brought him south to Gatlinburg, Tennessee. There he continued to play music and started a family business. He left Gatlinburg in 1978 to Oxford, Mississippi and finished college at The University of Mississippi, graduating in 1980. He worked in Media-Operations at Ole Miss, producing and directing remote sports productions and in 1986 moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama where he lives with his wife, two kids, three dogs and a cat. He began writing in the early nineties.
Brooks started Monteith's Mountains in 1995, at least partially in response to a search for family. That trail led him to the southern Appalachian Mountains of east Tennessee and North Carolina, into the remote areas of what is now the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and to characters that refused to stay in the past.
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