Taylor Anderson has a Master's Degree in History and has taught that subject at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas. He is the author of a historical work entitled The Life and Tools of the Rocky Mountain Free Trapper and a number of short stories and articles. He also won several Inter-Collegiate Press Association awards while a student. He is a voracious consumer of literature of every description and a careful and meticulous historian.
Besides his academic accomplishments, he is a gun maker and forensic ballistic archaeologist, having collaborated with numerous museums as well as the National Parks Service and the United States Army. He is a technical and dialogue consultant for movies and documentaries and has even done some acting. A list of productions in which he has been involved is available, but it is safe to say that he has played at least an advisory role in many of the movies made in the last 15 years that involved 18th, 19th and early 20th century combat.
On USS TEXAS, BB-35, thanks to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Battleship Texas Foundation.
He is a member of the National Historical Honor Society and the United States Field Artillery Association—from which he was awarded the Honorable Order of St. Barbara.
He owns a collection of 18th and 19th century artillery pieces and fires them for movie sound, documentaries, competition, and fun. His cannons (and sometimes himself) have appeared in many films including: The Alamo (2003), Palo Alto, American Outlaws, Two For Texas, Time Tracers, and Rough Riders. (He also consulted on The Patriot and Ride With The Devil.) He knows precisely what cannons are capable of and that is reflected in his writing.
As a sailor, he is conversant in the capricious vagaries of the weather and the sea and as a historian, he is trained to research what he is unable to experience first-hand. Careful research was essential to writing Destroyermen because one of the main characters is, after all, the USS Walker. Over 270 “four-stacker” destroyers were built during and after WW I, but none remain today. However, Anderson spent thousands of hours researching similarly classed ships before writing Destroyermen.
He loves old music, old trucks, old guns, and old dogs—but would give everything he has to go into space. He says he was either born a century too late or too early. He lives in Granbury, Texas, with his wife, Christine, his daughter, Rebecca, and his Golden Retriever, High-Top Brass Tacitus, or “Tass” for short.
Devil's Battle, August 2024
Trade Paperback Devil's Battle, October 2023 Artillerymen #3
Hardcover / e-Book Hell's March, August 2023 Artillerymen #2
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Hardcover / e-Book Purgatory's Shore, August 2022 Artillerymen #1
Hardcover / e-Book Purgatory's Shore, October 2021 Artillerymen #1
Hardcover / e-Book Winds of Wrath, August 2021 Destroyermen Series #15
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Winds of Wrath, June 2020 Destroyermen # 15
Hardcover / e-Book Pass of Fire, June 2019 Destroyermen #14
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Hardcover River of Bones, May 2019 Destroyermen #13
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Devil's Due, June 2018 Destroyermen #12
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Devil's Due, June 2017 Destroyermen
Hardcover / e-Book Blood In the Water, May 2017
Mass Market Paperback Blood In the Water, June 2016
Hardcover / e-Book Straits of Hell, May 2016
Paperback / e-Book Storm Surge, July 2013
Paperback / e-Book Iron Gray Sea, July 2012 Destroyermen #7
Hardcover / e-Book Firestorm, October 2011
Hardcover Rising Tides, February 2011 Destroyermen #5
Hardcover / e-Book Distant Thunders, July 2010 Destroyermen #4
Hardcover Maelstrom, February 2009 Destroyermen #3
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