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Napoleon Crews 

Napoleon Crews began writing his first manuscript, for publication, in 1990.  He was told often, throughout his life, that he had a special way with words and empathy.  The gift of writing culminated in Napoleon penning nine completed manuscripts, some of which are short stories and others are longer novel-length works.  In addition, he has written and produced three dramatic plays of a historical bent.  Napoleon formed his own company and published and distributed them throughout the Midwest, where they have been popular.

The driving force behind the first manuscript, The Emancipation of Nate Bynum, was Napoleon’s desire to tell the unknown stories, and to right the wrongs of early historical writers who depicted Blacks, women,  and other minorities as inept, weak-minded, and inferior.

Napoleon poured his experience as a private investigator, cowboy, martial artist, bodyguard, and later as a lawyer into the building of his characters.  He used family stories and legends to help form his plots.  When he describes the way a horse moves, a steer bolts, or a punch is thrown, he’s felt the move, seen the bolt, and thrown the punch.  His experience as a practicing lawyer is used to devise authentic legal situations and resolutions.

Napoleon, his wife Brooke, and youngest daughter Mika reside in Lawrence, Kansas, where Napoleon practices law at the Crews Law Firm by day and writes and polishes his manuscripts by night.  The other children of Napoleon and Brooke’s combined families are: Kato, Mia, Bryan, Charity, Jeremy, Ellery and Shiloh.

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