About Edgar Doleman
I was born into a military family and consequently moved frequently growing up. I began grade school in Bolivia, and finished in Kansas. High school took me from New Jersey to Texas to Georgia and finally to Pennsylvania.
On graduating from the Virginia Military Institute, I was commissioned as an infantry officer and served in Berlin, Korea, various posts in the U.S. including commanding a basic training company where young draftees and volunteers transitioned from being civilians to being soldiers, and two tours in Vietnam.
In Vietnam I commanded an air cavalry infantry company and later served as an advisor to a South Vietnamese infantry battalion. After Vietnam, I taught a military history course at the U. of Richmond and after retiring, wrote "The Tools of War," one of the Time-Life series "The Vietnam Experience." "Arlen's Gun" is my first novel.
Child of a career soldier, Edgar Doleman grew up in two countries and eight states. On graduating from college, he followed his father and pursued a career in the Army, serving in Berlin, Korea, Vietnam and various posts in the U.S. After retiring from a second career in information technology, his wife Donna encouraged him to write and he began work on his first novel, “Arlen’s Gun – A Novel of War in Vietnam – a Journey from Alienation to Brotherhood.” Donna conceived the idea for “The Chimera,” a mystery set in Virginia’s rural Northern Neck where they had retired. They worked on it together until the project was gradually put on hold as she fought a losing battle with cancer.
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As their love had sparked the story, it sparked the need to finish “The Chimera,” now the first of a series.
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