User:Silvermarco1/Jon Talton

Jon Talton (born September 14, 1956) is an American journalist and author. He is the economics columnist of the Seattle Times and has been a columnist for the Arizona Republic, Rocky Mountain News and Charlotte Observer. He has also served as business editor for the Dayton Daily News, Cincinnati Enquirer and Charlotte Observer. He writes a blog for the Seattle Times as well as his independent commentary blog, Rogue Columnist.

Talton is the author of the David Mapstone Mysteries: Concrete Desert, Cactus Heart, Camelback Falls, Dry Heat, Arizona Dreams and the upcoming South Phoenix Rules (2010). The Mapstone series, a modern noir police procedural about a historian turned deputy sheriff, is set in Phoenix. Talton is also author of the mystery The Pain Nurse and the thriller Deadline Man (spring 2010).

Talton is a fourth-generation Arizonan, which informed his often controversial columns at the Arizona Republic, as well as the Phoenix mysteries. Professor David William Foster of Arizona State University wrote of the Mapstone novels, “the most important literary contribution of Talton's writing is to bring out the historical forces that have shaped contemporary Phoenix and, in the process, to provide it with one set of the stories many, naïvely or disingenuously, would like to pretend it lacks.”

Footnote to Foster comment:

http://rmmla.wsu.edu/ereview/61.1/articles/foster.asp

External links:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/jontalton/

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/soundeconomywithjontalton/

http://roguecolumnist.typepad.com/

http://www.jontalton.com/

http://www.poisonedpenpress.com/books/ppp-authors/talton-jon