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Kodiak Island
Ethan McLaren, emotionally bankrupt and financially strapped, returns home to Kodiak Island hoping to quietly recover from the personally traumatizing events of his past three years in southern California. Instead he finds himself drawn into the murder of a minister he met on the ferry crossing from Homer when seventy-three year old, former island madam, Mz. Martha Marie, dragoons him into investigating.

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The VISTA Alaska Letters
I arrived in Alaska in July 1969, accompanied by my wife Suzie, as a VISTA Volunteer. I had requested assignment to an “Eskimo village, in the Interior, with rivers, mountains and forests.” As it turned that such a place actually existed, Little Russian Mission, on the middle Kuskokwim River, 300 air miles west of Anchorage. Duly warned that I would have to build my own cabin as no housing existed, I blithely flew off to the most educational year of my life.

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A Teacher on the Yukon
In 1969 I fulfilled a childhood dream and moved to Alaska. The Federal government was my travel agent, having accepted my application to become a VISTA Volunteer, an application which I had stamped "Alaska Only!" My years in Alaska changed me. The sometimes tragic experiences of the following years also had their effects, as did other occurrences, both humorous and instructive. I have been blessed to have lived a full, demanding, and complicated life.

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About Ed Wilson

Author Ed Willson

Bush Foundation Creative Writing Fellow, and award winning non-fiction writer, Edward W. Wilson begins a new series of mystery novels with Kodiak Island featuring psychotherapist Ethan McLaren. A former resident of Kodiak, and a long time rural Alaskan, Dr. Wilson’s works include the young adult novel The Trail to Eagle Rock; and two memoirs: VISTA Alaska – The Little Russian Mission Letters, 1969-1970 and A Teacher on the Yukon, The Rampart Alaska Letters, 1972-1977.

During his years in the Bush, Dr. Wilson worked as a Political Advisor to the Alaska Village Council Presidents’ Association on the Kuskokuim River at Chauthbaluk; and as a teacher at Tigara School in Pt. Hope on the northwest Arctic Coast. During the 1970s he operated the K-12 one room school in Rampart on the Yukon River where he also worked as a commercial salmon fisherman and placer miner.

During his years on Kodiak he worked as a mental health counselor for the U. S. Coast Guard, did assessments for the island’s Mental Health Center, taught at the high school and occasionally wrote articles for the newspaper. He left Kodiak in 1993 to complete his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology and accept a position creating a private secondary school in a southern California adolescent psychiatric hospital.

He is also the author of the highly regarded and research based “Guide to AA: Who it Helps, Who it Harms, Who it Kills & Why.”

Currently, semi-retired, he divides his time between his clients (www.non12step.com) and writing both fiction and non-fiction.

Upcoming writings include a sequel to the mystery Kodiak Island, Harbor Lights (2023); the memoir Tigara School – The Pt. Hope, Alaska Letters,1970-1972 (late 2022); a second up-dated edition of the memoir A Teacher on the Yukon (late 2022); the personal account of his 10 year old daughter’s return five years after her kidnapping, Traveling Home (2023); and just for fun women’s erotica and romance, titles to be determined. 

Look for the Following by Ed Wilson

  • Kodiak Island
  • VISTA Alaska
  • A Teacher on the Yukon
  • A Guide to AA
  • Pretty Pink Flower – An Erotic Romance (as Kendra Van Owen)