IT’S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE
Joe Jackson might not seem your typical Western historian. His father was a rocket scientist during the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, and Jackson majored in English and psychology in college, then worked briefly as a suicide councilor before moving into journalism. He spent a dozen years as an investigative and police beat reporter for newspaper in Norfolk, Virginia, where he teaches creative writing at Old Dominion University. Some of his work strays far from was a 2002 Edgar Award finalist from Mystery Writers of America in the best fact crime book category, and won a 2017 Spur Award from Western Writers of America in the best Western biography category. Jackson is working on a book about the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars.
