Gene Jordan

Writer, Gene Jordan, has lived all his 77 years in Butler and Mercer Counties with a one year exception (1963-64) when he served as a Fulbright scholar teaching in Argentina. His experiences, 20 years a teacher, 30 years a businessman, and 70 years a traveler in nearly all the United States and Canadian Providences. This has given him a rich lore of life from which he bases his short stories and novels. Being armed with a vivid imagination helps his writings. His stories are not autobiographical but fact and fiction are inextricably in his own style of writing. This becomes very apparent in his novel, An Old Man and a Girl, A Modern Lewis and Clark Adventure and in Gene Jordan's Short Stories.

He has visited Mexico, Spain, France, and England many times. This is where Gene pulls some of his experiences from enabling him to create his fictional stories.

Gene has been published in outdoor magazines, worked in newspapers, and school papers. "Bowhunter's Luck" was published in the "Elk Country and the Hunt Bugle" in July/August 2007 edition. "Historic Bull" was printed in the "Bowhunter" December 2002 edition.

Gene Jordan loves to tell stories, even walking in the footsteps of his characters. He has a lifelong love of archery and has hosted archery events in the past. He is a life member of PSEA, NRA, and a senior member of the Pope and Young Club, a yearly member of the Rocky Mountain Elk foundation, and a volunteer at the Greenville Railroad Museum.

Gene envisions stories told before the written word. Stories told beside campfires, passed on and enhanced. He tries to not direct the reader, but wants readers to enjoy the tale and find experiences related to their own lives and knowledge.

Gene has been and continues to be a big fan of writers like Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Jack London, Cormac McCarthy, Willa Cather, and many others from 1850 to present day who have shaped their stories in new different forms, refusing to follow rigid rules... just stories to interest listeners, and readers.