Robert Skimin

Robert Skirmin (born July 30, 1929, in Belden, Ohio) is a retired U.S. Army officer, artist, and Pulitzer Prize-nominated and award-winning author of both fiction and historical books.

Military career

Born in a small village in rural Ohio, Skimin became an army aviator during the Korean War. He was the first army pilot to wear the Green Beret. [ [http://www.robertskimin.com/biograph.html Robert Skimin personal website - biography] ] He was awarded the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star, and the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster. [ [http://www.koreanwar.org/html/units/187rct.htm?set=450 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team - US Army - Korean War Project ] ] [http://www.ohiocenterforthebook.org/index.php?q=node/11&id=286 Author Detail | Ohio Center for the Book @ Cleveland Public Library ] ]

Author

Skimin has written a number of books of both factual and alternate history—the Library of Congress lists 14 titles to date. He has received several awards, including induction into the El Paso Writers Hall of Fame, and received the Ohiana Book Award in 1984 for "Chikara". In 1993, he earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination for "Apache Autumn".

His current works are a book series called "Danny Drumm's Heroes" [ [http://dannydrumm.com dannydrumm.com] ] :

*Volume 1: "Johnny Clem" - This book introduces the narrator, a Civil War drummer boy, and his dog Shadow. It tells the story of one of the many drummer boys in the Civil War who later became a two-star general, John Clem.
*Volume 2: "America's Beginnings - The Spaniards" - Danny Drumm narrates the early exploration of the Americas.
*Volume 3: "The Early Settlement of New Mexico" - This book is largely about the Spaniard's conquest of New Mexico and touches on the Indian rebellions.

Partial bibliography

*"The Booze Game" (1976)
*"Soldier for Hire"
*"Chikara!"
*"Gray Victory"
*"Renegade Lightning"
*"Apache Autumn"
*"Ulysses"
*"The River and the Horsemen"
*"Custer's Luck"
*"Footprints of Heroes: From the American Revolution to the War in Iraq"
*"Danny Drumm's Heroes"

Personal life

Skimin is a survivor of larynx cancer, and supports cancer prevention and recovery. He currently lives in El Paso, Texas.

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