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Tom Huggler is a fulltime freelance writer and author of 20 nonfiction books and two novels, including THE WOMAN SHE LEFT BEHIND, released in the Fall of 2025.
A former high school English teacher with B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Michigan, Tom turned in his gradebooks for a reporter's notebook in 1982. The former president of the Outdoor Writers Association of America has written articles for more than 100 publications and currently pens columns in each issue of WOODS-N-WATER NEWS ("Michigan Meanders") and SHOOTING SPORTSMAN ("To the Point").
Many of his nonfiction books have become collectible, including GROUSE OF NORTH AMERICA and A FALL OF WOODCOCK. His six-book FISH MICHIGAN series of mapped guides to the state's best public-access fishing locations sold more than a quarter-million copies and are now out of print.
Huggler's first book was a conservation novel for young readers. WESTWIND WOODS (Michigan United Conservation Clubs, 1978) was written for his eighth-grade English students and went on to sell 15,000 copies. Tom has returned to fiction writing in his later years. THE WOMAN SHE LEFT BEHIND (Sunacumen Press) is a never-told, true tale of a southern Michigan pioneer farm wife who was widowed on the eve of the Civil War. Upon learning in the spring of 1862 that her soldier son was dying on a Missouri battlefield, she left three other children with her farm's hired man and traveled alone through a war zone to find her son.
THE WOMAN SHE LEFT BEHIND is available in paperback and as an e-book from Amazon KDP and Ingram Lightning and from bookstores worldwide.