Edward Massey

Edward Massey was born with a love of the West, and it grew.

Raised in rural Utah, two teachers persuaded him to apply for the first exchange program to send seniors to school in Germany. On the boat, a student told him how to apply to Yale. A forty-one year adventure of great schools, wonderful travel, and creative opportunities (even owning a Minor League baseball team) took precedence over writing except for talking about writing.

One day, his wife-to-be gave him a bound volume of blank pages and said “put up or shut up.” He has published a novel, Telluride Promise, five short stories, Every Soul Is Free, and now Fugitive Sheriff. Telluride Promise was named a quarterfinalist of the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards. Every Soul Is Free was named Gold Quill winner, Grand Prize Award for best novel published in 2014 by the League of Utah Writers.

His fourth novel has been scheduled for publication in June, 2020, by Five Star Publishing. Edward’s work explores the struggles people encounter in staying true to themselves and their ideals. He shines a light on the hard decisions made every day, the hardest of which is to keep going. He writes of the glory in facing reality, real stories about real working people for real reading people. He and Anne live in Connecticut where he writes every day.

His West propelled him toward a pursuit of freedom and independence. Raised inside a clear set of boundaries, he learned he could benefit from working as long and hard as energy allowed. He discovered that he observed those boundaries because they were in his blood, not because anyone was watching. He lived a career as an entrepreneur and started writing because he sees heroic acts in the work of ordinary people. He has a lifetime belief that you are defined by what you do and how you do it.

Edward reveres the courage and strength his great-grandfather showed in refusing to escape to Mexico to avoid the persecution of the polygamists. With time that decision led to Edward's grandfather.

Edward has lived Sheriff Simms’s story from the Thanksgiving Day his grandfather died. Every Soul is Free reflects a lifetime belief that you are defined by what you do and how you do it.

Edward wrote Telluride Promise seeing greatness in the ordinary act of working every day and the simple act of living up to one’s promise. He heard Buck Wain’s story forty years ago and even found himself living it. Would you give up everything to live up to your promise?

Growing up in the mountains of Utah — a great-grandson of pioneers — formed him and gave him the willingness to take on the unknown that led to participation in American Field Service’s first ever school program. That suggestion to apply to Yale changed his life forever. In Future Work he talks about the distant day when he may write that memoir. Today it is enough to say, Edward brings personal experience with every level of business and society to his writing. And his writing is supported by consulting and speaking that is based on all those experiences and the people they touch.