Gary Doc Nelson

Gary Doc Nelson wrote his first book, WHISKY MARY’S DEAD (unpublished), while working as an engineering officer in the U. S. Merchant Marine between the end of the Korean War and the start of the war in Vietnam. As is often the case, life got in the way, and he didn’t resume writing for many years.

With the help of two scholarships and a fellowship, he attended the California Maritime Academy (BS in Engineering), the University of San Francisco, the College of Physicians and Surgeons - University of the Pacific (DDS), and the University of North Carolina (MSD), and took a single course at San Francisco State College.

Nelson has worked as a stock boy in a liquor store, delivered flowers, and served as a night watchman at San Francisco City Hall. He was the third engineering officer on the SS Green Mountain State, a Lt. Commander in the US Navy, a tenured professor at the University of the Pacific, a Division I university golf coach, and the Director of Athletics at the University of San Francisco. He also maintained a private practice in prosthodontics (he was a specialist dentist) for forty-seven years.

He is currently working on his eleventh and twelfth novels.