Ronald Clair Roat

Ronald Clair Roat (April 4, 1946 – November 28, 2013) was the author of the Stuart Mallory Mystery Series. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1968 with a bachelor's in journalism. Later that year he was drafted into the U.S. Army and served about two years with a Nike Hercules missile battalion near Pittsburgh, Pa. Before becoming a journalism professor, he worked for several newspapers as a professional reporter, editor, or columnist. The newspapers included the ''Lansing State Journal'', ''Dominion News'' (Morgantown, W.Va.), ''Dayton Daily News'', and ''The Times'' in Frankfort, Ind. He served as a journalism professor at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, Indiana, between 1986 and 2008 when he retired. Provided by Wikipedia