Robert Vaughan (author)

Robert Vaughan (author)

Robert Vaughan is an American writer. He has authored over 200 books. He won the 1977 Porgie Award (Best Paperback Original) for "The Power and the Pride". He has also written a series of contemporary and historical romance novels under the pseudonyms "Paula Moore" and "Paula Fairman". He wrote the novelization for the television movie "Andersonville".

Vaughan is a frequent speaker at seminars and at high schools and colleges, and has also hosted three television talk shows: "Eyewitness Magazine" on WAVY-TV in Portsmouth, Virginia; "Tidewater A.M." on W05BQ-TV in Hampton, Virginia; and "This Week in Books" on the TEMPO Cable Television Network. He has also written and produced a one-man play about Ernest Hemingway.

Vaughan is a retired Army Warrant Officer (CW-3) with three tours in Vietnam where he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with the V for valor, the Bronze Star, the Distinguished Service Medal, and the Purple Heart. He was a helicopter pilot and a maintenance and supply officer. He was also an instructor and Chief of the Aviation Maintenance Officers' Course at Fort Eustis, Virginia.

Vaughan was inducted into the Writers’ Hall of Fame in 1998.

He is currently writing and producing a documentary film about Vietnam veterans.


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