About Kimball Fisher
Kimball Fisher is a best-selling business author, professional speaker, and management consultant. Before he started his consulting company, he worked as a sailboat builder, ghost writer, illustrator, and factory manager.
He also writes adventure fantasy novels for young readers.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanities (with minors in English, Asian Studies, and Japanese), and a Master of Organizational Behavior degree from Brigham Young University. He and his beautiful wife, Reenie, split their time between homes in Oregon, Utah, and Hawaii. Most of the year they reside in Portland, Oregon, where they have seen pheasants, coyotes, and a bobcat in their own backyard.
The bobcat trail in the Fisher's backyard. A rare Christmas snow allowed them to capture photographs of the bobcat's paw prints.
Travel adventures
Kimball and Mareen Fisher on some of their adventures to Egypt, Japan, Africa, Alaska, Tahiti, Australia and New Zealand. They had fun riding camels (when the camels weren't spitting), throwing boomerangs, and petting stingrays.
A real mystery
A pencil sketch of a Native American man by Kimball Fisher. He drew it when he was sixteen. On the right is a beaded necklace with an American flag made by Benjamin Farnsworth's adoptive Navajo mother and given to him when he returned to the white settlement in Richfield, Utah.
In Thunderbird Feather, Zachary's only clue to his parent's identity is a flat black rock. This was inspired by a real identity mystery in Kimball Fisher's own family. His great grandfather, Benjamin Farnsworth, was adopted by the wife of a Navajo (Diné) chief or headsman (see story at left). The only clue to her identity is the beautiful black necklace (strung on horsehair) that she gave to Benjamin as a going away present.
Reading suggestions
As a boy, Kimball Fisher's favorites were The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle, the Hardy Boys mystery series by Franklin W. Dixon, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, The Wizard of Oz Series by L. Frank Baum, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Some of his contemporary favorites for young readers include the Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull, the Five Ancestors series by Jeff Stone, the His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman, and the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan.
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Credits: Sketch of Zachary flying by Jim Madsen. Beaded strip and photo of young Nez-Perce man by permission of www.firstpeople.us (see link).