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The Author
Douglas Armstrong was born in Kansas, but his memories of it are largely
second hand. His family left Wichita when he was five and his notion of Kansas was shaped by stories his mother told him about her life in the small town where she grew up. Those stories form the
basis of his deeply rooted debut novel, Even Sunflowers Cast Shadows, which was named the best by a
Wisconsin writer in 2010 by the Council for Wisconsin Writers.
More recently, Armstrong has begun a series of mysteries set in the 1960s featuring two reporters working for a metropolitan
newspaper named The Sun. Each book takes as its theme a major issue from those turbulent years: the Vietnam War (
Life on The Sun),
the civil rights movement (Color of The Sun), and women's liberation (title to be announced).
Armstrong's short stories have appeared in a variety of magazines from Ellery Queen to
Alfred Hitchcock to Boys’ Life, written while his main career for three decades was as a
newspaper reporter, editorial writer, columnist and film critic at The Milwaukee Journal and later the Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel.
The author is married and the father of four. He and his wife, Mary, live in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, where he serves on the local library and school boards.
He is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, the Council for Wisconsin Writers, and the Milwaukee Press Club.
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