Will Edwinson is an award-winning author and award-winning columnist. He made his living in Southeast Idaho as a dry land farmer raising primarily barley and wheat. It wasn’t until he reached his mid-fifties that he embarked on a writing career. Up until that time, he had always felt he lacked the necessary abilities and skills to be a writer, and he admits that he was not that interested in reading for entertainment in his early years.
Writing was a dream he had always harbored in the back of his mind and after reaching mid-life, he determined that if he were ever going to do it, he had better begin. Fiction was his desire, so he began reading fiction of every genre to try to get a grasp of different writing styles.
Edwinson is basically a self-taught author, paying attention to the works of the authors he likes to read, and picking up on various writing techniques. He also took advantage of many books and manuals on writing that are available. These are mentioned on his Links & Lists page. His book, “Buddy…His Trials and Treasures,” is a double award-winning book, and he also won a second place award from the Utah-Idaho-Spokane Associated Press Association for his nostalgia column that he writes under another name.
Edwinson has written four books, two of which have been published. His first published novel, “A HALCYON REVOLUTION,” is now out of print, but he is working on a revised version and is thinking of offering it for a second release under the new title, “THE PARIS CONNECTION—A Quest for Freedom”.
In his younger years, Edwinson was a semi-professional singer, performing on stages from Sun Valley, Idaho, to Lake Havasu City, Arizona. He is also an inventor of sorts, as well. He invented and Trademarked a children’s allowance management system “The Child’s Checkmaster.” which enabled parents and children to keep better track of the children’s allowance draws and which also taught the children some rudimentary money management skills.
Will Edwinson lives in Pocatello Idaho.
