About Carole Troxler Books
Carole Watterson Troxler is a footloose historian, and part of her mind resides happily in the eighteenth century. As Professor Emerita at Elon University, Carole continues to research and write scholarly history, focusing primarily on the impacts of the American Revolution in the southern backcountry, Atlantic Canada, and the Bahamas. Decades of research fed her imagination while she created The Red Dog: A Tale of the Carolina Frontier, her first work of fiction, during summer breaks from her usual writing. Her fellow historians of Colonial and Revolutionary America "know [her] fondly as the grand dame of backcountry Southern Loyalists" -- (Rebecca N. Brannon, James Madison University). Carole loves living in the woods in Alamance County, North Carolina, where she encourages native plants and plays Old-Time Music. George and Carole Troxler are in their fiftieth year of marriage in 2017. They are blessed with two accomplished and happy daughters, the world's cutest grandbaby, a near-granddaughter whose elegance is reflected in the heroine of The Red Dog, and outstanding in-laws all around. A native of LaGrange, Georgia, Carole holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has received two book awards and the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association's Christopher Crittenden Award.
