Paul VanDevelder
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Paul VanDevelder

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When not on the lam from bail-bondsmen and process servers in little Mexican beachside communities that cater to Canadian surfers and American trust fund outlaws. Paul has cobbled together a work resume featuring stints as a gandy dancer, a backstretch groomsman on a larcenous little race track in Tijuana, a short order cook in a take-out chicken shack north of Needles, a postal clerk, a dry fly tier, a guard-dog handler, and a bell-ringer at a drive-thru wedding chapel near Elko, Nevada. He has quit, walked off, or been fired from or every job he's ever had. His last career counselor was a little blue haired lady with cat-eye glasses and a turrets-like facial tic that exposed the gum line of her lower dentures when she worked up the nerve to broach the truth, as she saw it: "For an all-around no-good such as yourself, Mr. VanDevelder, I'm down to one question for you. Can you write?" Blah, blah, blah. Advice taken... Paul has enjoyed a colorful career in daily print journalism covering two wars, four presidential campaigns and all manner of natural and unnatural disasters. His investigative stories and columns on science, the environment, health, politics, law, foreign policy, and the U.S. Constitution have appeared in Esquire, the Smithsonian, American History, Native Peoples, SAIL, Audubon, Outside, High Country News and leading newspapers in the U.S. and around the world. His books, Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial that Forged a Nation (Little, Brown & Co., 3rd edition) and Savages & Scoundrels, The Untold Story of America's Road to Empire through Indian Territory (Yale University Press, 4th edition), were both nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award, and won the Oregon Book Award, among others; savagesandscoundrelsdotorg.
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