John Straley
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The youngest of five children, John Straley was born in 1953. He received a BA in English and a certificate of completion in Horse Shoeing. He has brown eyes and likes jokes and a wide variety of literature and music. He is the Shamus Award-winning author of The Curious Eat Themselves and The Woman Who Married a Bear and was appointed the Writer Laureate of Alaska in 2006. John Straley lives with his wife, Jan, a prominent whale biologist, in a bright green house on the beach in Sitka, Alaska, where he works as a criminal defense investigator by day and sleeps, writes, and plays with his band, The Big Fat Babies, whenever he can. For more information, visit his website.
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John Straley's Books
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The Woman Who Married a Bear
John Straley
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The Curious Eat Themselves
John Straley
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Cold Storage, Alaska
John Straley
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The Big Both Ways
John Straley
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Baby's First Felony
John Straley
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The Music of What Happens
John Straley
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Cold Water Burning
John Straley
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The Angels Will Not Care
John Straley
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Death and the Language of Happiness
John Straley
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What Is Time to a Pig?
John Straley
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So Far and Good
John Straley
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Blown by the Same Wind
John Straley
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Big Breath In
John Straley
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John Straley's Book Series
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Cecil Younger Investigations
John Straley
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The Cold Storage Novels
John Straley
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