Donald James Parker
Author of the Masterson Family Series
The Bulldog Compact, More Than Dust in the Wind, All the Stillness of the Wind, and All the Fury of the Wind.
The Bulldog Compact is a young adult novel about an eighth grade boy from Madison, SD and his friends who decide they want to win the state basketball championship enough to sign a pledge to devote themselves to the task. Set a goal and work to achieve that goal is one of the themes.
Don is a 1968 graduate of Madison Central High School in Madison, South Dakota. He graduated from Dakota State University in Madison in 1972 with a degree in secondary education. After moving to Washington State in 1981, Don studied computer programming and turned his writing efforts to software. After twenty-five of IT work, Don's passion for writing flared up again, and the doctors couldn't do anything to cure it. The outcome is a five book series involving two generations of the Masterson family. If demand warrants, the series will expand as the future unfolds.