S4E11: Thinking Up Historical Nonfiction Ideas From Home with #1 NYT Bestselling Author Tom Clavin

Tom Clavin is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend, The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat, Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier, Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell, Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West, and the new book FOLLOW ME TO HELL: McNelly’s Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice. He has worked as a newspaper editor, magazine writer, TV and radio commentator, and a reporter for The New York Times. 

Clavin joins the show to discuss his writing journey, where he gets his story ideas for such a niche field of historical nonfiction, and how he got his first book deal.

He finishes the interview by sharing the most important characteristic for children and anybody in any profession: curiosity.

Website: www.tomclavin.com