Ronald Clair Roat

Infobox Writer
name = Ronald Clair Roat


birthdate = 04 April 1946
birthplace = Pontiac, Michigan, United States
occupation = Novelist
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Ronald Clair Roat is the author of the Stuart Mallory Mystery Series. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1968 with a bachelor's in journalism. Later that year he was drafted into the U.S. Army and served about two years with a Nike Hercules missile battalion near Pittsburgh, Pa. Before becoming a journalism professor, he worked for several newspapers as a professional reporter, editor, or columnist. The newspapers included the Lansing State Journal, Morgantown, W.Va., Dominion News, Dayton Daily News, and The Times in Frankfort, Ind. He served as a journalism professor at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, Indiana, between 1986 and 2008 when he retired.

He is now working on the fourth novel in the Stuart Mallory series, "Some in Velvet Gowns", and a book for college students, "Autonomy". He lives in Manistee, Michigan, where he created the Remedial Academy, a podcast site: [http://remedialacademy.podbean.com] .

tuart Mallory Mystery Series

The series consists of three books:
*Close Softly the Doors
*A Still and Icy Silence
*High Walk.