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Brad Steiger's Bio:
Contributing writer Brad Stieger
Brad Steiger was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on February 19,1936. He is married to Sherry Hansen Steiger, a licensed and ordained minister, herself the author or coauthor of over 22 books. He has two sons, three daughters, and six grandchildren.



He is the author/coauthor of 162 books with over 17 million copies in print.

His titles include . . .


Biographies:

  • Valentino
  • Judy Garland
  • Jim Thorpe

Books of inspiration:

  • Love Is A Miracle
  • Christmas Miracles
  • Miracles of a Mother's Love
  • Animal Miracles

The phenomenal and the paranormal:

  • Mysteries of Time and Space
  • The Source: A Journey through the Unexplained
  • The Werewolf Book: An Encyclopedia of Shapeshifting Beings
  • Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places
  • The Gale Encyclopedia [three volumes] of the Unusual and Unexplained

Spirituality:

  • Revelation--The Divine Fire
  • Touched by Heaven's Light
  • American Indian Medicine Power
  • Totems

UFO research:

  • Strangers from the Skies
  • Project Bluebook
  • The Rainbow Conspiracy
  • UFO Odyssey

True crime:

  • The Mass Murderer
  • Bizarre Crime

Steiger's first published articles on the unexplained appeared in 1956, and he has now written more than 2,000 articles with paranormal themes. From 1970-'73, his weekly newspaper column, The Strange World of Brad Steiger, was carried domestically in over 80 newspapers and overseas from Bombay to Tokyo.

Awards and Honors:

  • 1974: San Francisco, the Genie, for Metaphysical Writer of the Year
  • 1977: Philadelphia, the Dani, for Services to Humanity
  • 1987: Inducted into the Hypnosis Hall of Fame
  • 1996: Minneapolis, Lifetime Achievement Award at the National UFOand Unexplained Phenomena Conference

Television appearances include:

  • Nightline with Ted Koppel
  • ABC Evening News with Peter Jennings
  • NBC Evening News with Tom Brokaw
  • This Week [with David Brinkley Sam Donaldson, and Cokie Roberts]
  • The Mike Douglas Show
  • The David Suskind Show
  • The Joan Rivers Show
  • Entertainment Tonight
  • Haunted Hollywood [for HBO]
  • Inside Edition
  • The Unexplained [A&E]
  • Giants: The Myth and the Mystery [The Learning Channel]
  • The television series Could It Be a Miracle? features Brad and Sherry in 22 episodes.

Steiger guests on many radio programs in numerous cities throughout the United States, and he is a regular on Jeff Rense's Sightings on the Radio, Art Bell's Coast to Coast, Erskine Overnight, The Allan Handelman Show, The PsiZone.

He has been interviewed and featured in articles in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle, Arizona Republic, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Milwaukee Sentinel, Baltimore News American, Las Vegas Sun, The East Village Other, Publishers Weekly, Editor and Publisher, Des Moines Register, Dearborn Press, Fate, Family Weekly, Parade, Minneapolis Tribune, Wilmington News-Journal, The New Republic, South Bend Tribune, Library Journal, Buffalo Evening News, Scottsdale Progress, Phoenix Gazette, Scottsdale Magazine, Alamogordo Daily News, Arkansas Democrat Gazette, National Enquirer, National Examiner, The Globe.

Motion Pictures: In 1977, Steiger's bestselling biography of the great silent screen lover Valentino was made into a motion picture by British director Ken Russell, starring Rudolf Nureyev. In that same year, Steiger co-scripted the documentary film Unknown Powers [with Jack Palance as narrator], winner of the Film Advisory Board's Award of Excellence for 1978.

Works of Fiction: In 1956, Steiger began publishing short stories of mystery, fantasy, and science fiction in a wide variety of magazines, including Alfred Hitchcock's, The Saint, Trapped, and Fantastic. Among his novels are The Hypnotist, The Chindi, Alien Rapture: The Chosen [with Edgar Fouche].


Contact Information:

Website: http://www.bradandsherry.com/
Email: timewalker@netins.net


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