Ellen Kathleen Recknor was born June 7, 1951 in Creston to parents William Bryan Recknor and Lois Ames Recknor. She passed from this world on February 19, 2014 at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.
Ellen was a bright child, with a love of animals, art, and reading. These passions led to a lifetime of having pets in her life (horses, dogs, cats, and even an exotic turtle), drawing and painting professionally, and writing dozens of books under her own name and myriad pen names.
Ellen graduated from Urbandale High School in 1969, and went on to attend the School of the Associated Arts in St. Paul, MN and Drake University. She then made Scottsdale, AZ her home for many years. Her paintings of animals, especially Arabian horses, were sold in Scottsdale galleries. She eventually explored writing, and found that her life long interest in the Old West prepared her to write Western fiction. In 1998 she won a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America for Best Paperback Original, for "Leaving Missouri." Another book, "Me and the Boys," has been made into a script, which has made the rounds in Hollywood.
Ellen was a bright child, with a love of animals, art, and reading. These passions led to a lifetime of having pets in her life (horses, dogs, cats, and even an exotic turtle), drawing and painting professionally, and writing dozens of books under her own name and myriad pen names.
Ellen graduated from Urbandale High School in 1969, and went on to attend the School of the Associated Arts in St. Paul, MN and Drake University. She then made Scottsdale, AZ her home for many years. Her paintings of animals, especially Arabian horses, were sold in Scottsdale galleries. She eventually explored writing, and found that her life long interest in the Old West prepared her to write Western fiction. In 1998 she won a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America for Best Paperback Original, for "Leaving Missouri." Another book, "Me and the Boys," has been made into a script, which has made the rounds in Hollywood.
Ellen Kathleen Recknor was born June 7, 1951 in Creston to parents William Bryan Recknor and Lois Ames Recknor. She passed from this world on February 19, 2014 at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.
Ellen was a bright child, with a love of animals, art, and reading. These passions led to a lifetime of having pets in her life (horses, dogs, cats, and even an exotic turtle), drawing and painting professionally, and writing dozens of books under her own name and myriad pen names.
Ellen graduated from Urbandale High School in 1969, and went on to attend the School of the Associated Arts in St. Paul, MN and Drake University. She then made Scottsdale, AZ her home for many years. Her paintings of animals, especially Arabian horses, were sold in Scottsdale galleries. She eventually explored writing, and found that her life long interest in the Old West prepared her to write Western fiction. In 1998 she won a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America for Best Paperback Original, for "Leaving Missouri." Another book, "Me and the Boys," has been made into a script, which has made the rounds in Hollywood.
Ellen was a bright child, with a love of animals, art, and reading. These passions led to a lifetime of having pets in her life (horses, dogs, cats, and even an exotic turtle), drawing and painting professionally, and writing dozens of books under her own name and myriad pen names.
Ellen graduated from Urbandale High School in 1969, and went on to attend the School of the Associated Arts in St. Paul, MN and Drake University. She then made Scottsdale, AZ her home for many years. Her paintings of animals, especially Arabian horses, were sold in Scottsdale galleries. She eventually explored writing, and found that her life long interest in the Old West prepared her to write Western fiction. In 1998 she won a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America for Best Paperback Original, for "Leaving Missouri." Another book, "Me and the Boys," has been made into a script, which has made the rounds in Hollywood.
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