Dale A. Swanson
Award Winning Author
An American Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter and Playwright.
Swanson's prose is crisp and swift. His work is well-sculpted and tautly written, always captivating.
Swanson's latest release, a personal memoir titled Simpler Times, is filled with reflections of goodness, innocence, and all too often misguided play. It will return you to a time and place that you cherish and to which you are intrinsically and forever linked, and wish you could return. This may be his best book written.
![]() His novels, Tears of Sorrow and The Thirty-Ninth Man, adhere strictly to historical fact though its narrative is fictional. They are from a part of our past that has been glossed over in our history books. They are stories that needed to be told.
Tears of Sorrow is being lauded as a "Must Read of 2018." The Minneapolis Star Tribune listed The Thirty-Ninth man as readers' choice for "Best Book Read in 2013." The Wild Ways–Mystery Of The Hanging Tower, is a cleverly written fantasy chapter book for nine-to-ninety year olds published in 2015. Swanson’s must-read early American novels are intricately interwoven lessons about American history that leave you entertained and enlightened. To learn more about Swanson's books, click here.
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