About Fredrick Cooper Books
Fredrick Cooper realized he wanted to be a novelist after more than 30 years of writing engineering and technical reports and journal articles. His debut novel, Riders of the Tides, and his second, Destruction Island, are set in the coastal communities of SW Washington State where he was born. Like the characters in his novels, he was raised in close association with the timber and fishing industries and the sea in the Pacific Northwest and Southeast Alaska. Prior to obtaining a doctorate in civil engineering and pursuing a professional career, he worked as a road surveyor, longshoreman, commercial fisherman, cannery worker, and even as a technician and news announcer in a cable television station in a small community in Alaska. He is an enrolled member of a Northwest Indian Tribe and, in addition to his creative story-telling, is a wood carver specializing in Native American objects such as canoe paddles and ceremonial items. He is a member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association and the Willamette Writers. He and his wife and their Standard Schnauzer live in Portland, Oregon where he is working on his fourth novel.
