Lane R Warenski

Lane R. Warenski is a bestselling author with twenty-five #1 bestsellers to date. Born on a farm in central Utah to an outdoors-loving family, he grew up in the greater Salt Lake City area and attended Utah State University. From an early age, he was captivated by western history and inspired by a deep love of the outdoors. Hunting, fishing, and camping became lifelong passions, and today he still enjoys them along with his craftsmanship as a skilled knife maker and restorer of antique firearms.

In 2016, Lane published his debut novel, Grizzly Killer: The Making of a Mountain Man, which earned True West Magazine’s “Best in Frontier Fiction” award in 2017. Since then, he has written twenty-one bestselling sequels in the Grizzly Killer series, making it one of the most popular ongoing western sagas. His standalone novel, Trail of the Vanished (2018), reached #1 in Western Sci-Fi, while his most recent Frontier Scout series launched in 2025 with three bestselling installments in Western Fiction Classics.

Writing daily from his home near the towering peaks of Utah’s High Uinta Primitive Area, Lane continues to share his passion for the frontier and America’s western heritage with readers worldwide.