Leslie Compton

LESLIE COMPTON
Author, Speaker, Instructor | Website

Retired professional musician, music teacher, elementary teacher and childbirth educator and has taught several courses on memoir writing. I am a writer of non-fiction, collecting historic postcards and doing research. While researching the Great White Fleet I wrote an article for the Post Card Collector. In my spare time I enjoy fabric-art and quilting as well as attending classes at SOU through OLLI in Southern Oregon. I am currently working on my fourth book, living in Talent, Oregon.

BOOKS BY LESLIE COMPTON

DEAREST MINNIE, a sailor’s story

THAT’S JUST THE WAY LIFE IS

THE FORGOTTEN ARTIST, The Story of EVYLENA NUNN MILLER

Available from First Steps Publishing Bookstore, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online bookstores. Available in Print and eBook.

Ronald P. “Ron” Lovell, Author, Friend

August 1937 — March 2025

Ron Lovell was born in Colorado Springs and later graduated from UCLA. After serving in the Army, he built a journalism career and became a beloved OSU professor. In retirement, he wrote two mystery series—14 Thomas Martindale books and 4 featuring Lorenzo Madrid.

I’ll miss your “serious” critiques, that sent me into laughing fits on how my writing as “too cutsie” and our weekly donuts and coffee runs, talking about writing, stories, and everything in between.

You were and still are my best friend.

Read more about Ron at: RonLovellAuthor.com

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