Philip C. Jackson

Philip C. JacksonBiography For nine years, he rode race horses as a professional jockey at major race tracks throughout America. Forced to retire from race riding with the onset of Multiple Sclerosis at age thirty-two, he has been fortunate in pursuing his next love; the "not-so-physical" sport of writing. He won the New Mexico division of the Philip Morris Magazine National Essay Writing Contest in 1987.Published in American Voices, and spurred-on by the success of "Freedom Falling" therein, he has continued on the path to authorship with the completion of three novels. Since 1988 he has attended critique groups.A Spy Goes West is the continuation of frontier days action stories ending with Custer's last stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn, it had all begun with the first novel, A SPY WEARS TWO HATS, a young-adult historical fiction novel taking place in the summer of 1862.