Michael E NewellMichael E. Newell, a transplanted thirty-plus year resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma, grew up in a rural expanse not far from Detroit, Michigan. There, Newell developed a passion for the outdoors and found common ground with the gently rolling hills and hadwood forests of northeast Oklahoma.The pre-adolescent Newell learned wilderness life by exploring the hundreds of acres of open lands, which were, in effect, his backyard. Now retired and finding more time to write, Newell lives an empty-nester lifestyle with his wife, Linda, and their doggies, Katie and Penny. Read More Read Less