Joan Johnston is the top ten New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of more than 50 novels and novellas with more than 15 million copies of her books in print. Joan has an eclectic background and worked as a director of theater, drama critic, newspaper editor, college professor, and attorney on her way to becoming a full-time author.
Joan has a B.A. in Theater Arts from Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida, and an M.A. in Theatre from the University of Illinois in Urbana. Joan also earned a J.D. with honors from the University of Texas at Austin. She worked as an attorney for Hunton & Williams in Richmond, Virginia, and Squire, Sanders, and Dempsey in Miami, Florida.
As an Air Force brat, Joan traveled the world from North Africa to North Dakota. She visited Marrakech and learned to ride on an Arabian stallion in Morocco, and collected cowrie shells and let an octopus play on her hand at Lingayan Gulf in the Philippines. She grew up in a family of seven kids, which influenced her to write family sagas like her Bitter Creek and Hawk’s Way series.
Joan plays tennis, hikes, and attends as many Denver Broncos games as she can in between research trips around the world. She lives in Colorado.
You can reach Joan through her website, www.joanjohnston.com, through Facebook at www.facebook.com/joanjohnstonauthor or on Twitter at twitter.com/joanjohnston.