About

While other children went to bed listening to fairy tales of heroes like Peter Pan and Aslan from Narnia, Robert G. Huffstutler grew up on stories from the bible, but it was the stories that were passed from generation to generation in the family that really captured his attention. 

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Traditions like buttering your nose every birthday and tales of his ancestor surviving the Trail of Tears grew from small seedlings to a forest of sagas that the young boy would impart to his daughters as an adult. 

 

Robert didn’t share these legends with others outside his family until retiring as an Internship Coordinator at Northern Illinois University. As a retiree, he chose to start a new career as an author instead of playing golf and wrote his first historical fiction novel. The story of Susan and Betsy Roberts is the first book written and published by this author, but not the end of the library of exciting narratives inside his mind.