Robert Walton

I retired from teaching after thirty-six years of service at San Lorenzo Middle School. Rock-climbing and mountaineering are among my lifelong interests, though I admit I’m on the far side of the hill! I have wide writing experience for young people, both before and after my retirement. My YA novel Dawn Drums won the 2014 New Mexico Book Awards Tony Hillerman Prize for best fiction. “Sockdologizer”, a dramatization of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, won the Saturday Writers 2020 Everything Children contest.  Most recently, my “Mansa Musa’s Wisdom” was published in Cricket Media’s February, 2022 issue of Spider magazine. 
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