BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Harold L. "Hal" Mansfield was born in Fort Collins, Colorado. After he graduated from high school in 1949 and served in the U. S. Army from 1951 to 1954, he attended Colorado State University and graduated in June of 1958 with a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology.

After working several years in the private and governmental sectors, he received a National Defense Education Scholarship at the University of Denver, where he earned a master's degree in 1967. For five years, he taught at Regis College (now university) in Denver. While at Regis, in addition to teaching fulltime, he served as Acting Chair of the psychology department and Director of the Social Science division.

He returned to fulltime student status at DU in 1972 and received his Ph.D. in general experimental psychology from The University of Denver in 1974. He immediately accepted a faculty position at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, a state-supported, four-year, liberal-arts-college, which - for a time - was part of the Colorado State University system.

In 1993, he retired from Fort Lewis College, where he taught psychology, statistics and writing for 18 years. He was department chair and professor of psychology when he retired. He now holds the title of professor emeritus from FLC. His wife of 37 years, Lorita Young Mansfield, died in 1993. His daughter, Maura Ann (Misty), and her husband,
Peter T. (Toby) Peterson, live in Issaquah, Washington.

In addition to fiction writing, part of his retirement regimen includes researching, thinking about, and writing about contemporary social, economic, political and energy issues. He was co-founder and Chair of the San Juan Solar Energy Association in the late 1970s and early 1980s and served several terms on the Colorado Solar Advisory Committee (a governor appointment position). During the 1980-81 academic year, while on leave from FLC, he served as Deputy Director of the American Section of the International Solar Energy Society.

Some brief examples of his work are enclosed. A sample of his non-fiction work, "Manhunt," can be viewed at: crimemagazine.com

After a lifetime in Colorado, including the past thirty-one years in Durango, Colorado, he moved to Green Valley, Arizona in September of 2005. He recently finished a politically oriented short story ("How Laura Bush Became President") and a farce ("A Death Prophecy") which can be found from links on the Adult Fiction page.

Photo Note: Both are pictures of Engineer Mountain about one half hour north of Durango. The first is from the highway near Coal Bank pass, obviously in the fall, while the second is from a trail just northeast of the peak in late summer, just a bit after peak wildflower season.