Bobby R. Woodall was born in
Oklahoma City in 1944. He spent his childhood moving
from state to state as his father followed the oil fields.
This constant moving played havoc with his education.
He was in four different grade schools in one year.
His father never got past the fourth grade and his mother
never got past the eighth, but they instilled in him
a quest for knowledge. He was the first of over fifty
cousins to graduate from high school.
When he was thirty, he had a
horrible car accident. Transported to the local hospital,
he was given electric shock to start his heart beating
again. He lay in a coma for 47 days and was finally
released. He gives high praise to his wife:“Here
I was, a 30 year-old man who could not walk without
the aid of a walker, could not dress myself and could
not talk well. She had to take care of not only me,
but also our daughter who was 3 ½ years old and
our son of nine months. A terrific woman!”
After coming home, he spent time
in speech therapy and learned to walk with a cane. Finally,
he was able to walk on his own. It was at this time,
he was given an early type of computer by the state
of Indiana to rehabilitate him. There was a psychologist
in Indianapolis that had developed a program to help
brain damaged people to cope with life. While tackling
these tasks, he started writing. Having been an avid
reader, mostly westerns by Louis L’Amour and J.
R. Roberts, he would spend countless hours perusing
a myriad of books. “Why I can write as good as
them guys,” he thought. So he started writing
western novels.
Bobby can be reached at his email
address: bwoodall@voyager.net
and invites you to visit his web
sites. Be sure to sign his guest books also.
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