Fascinating True Tales from Old California: Crooked Con Men, Eccentric Immigrants, and Fearless Females Who Shaped the Golden State (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781493063239)

Colleen Adair Fliedner is an award-winning author, journalist, and historian. She has written four nonfiction books, radio and TV commercials, screenplays, and hundreds of articles for newspapers, magazines, and online publications. Her credits include the Los Angeles Times Travel Section, the Orange County Register; Westways, Home & Away (both Auto Club publications), France Today, BajaTRAVELER, and Native Peoples Magazines. Her most recent book, In the Shadows of War: Spies, Love & the Lusitania, is a historical fiction novel.

Colleen began her professional career as a research historian, writer, and oral historian at California State University, Long Beach, CA. She was a staff writer for the Orange County Register newspaper's online travel website and was a regular contributor for Talking Travel Radio Network based on the East Coast.

Colleen lives in Orange, California with her husband, Rick, and two Pomeranians. They can't wait to get back on the road again to visit their favorite places in the state.