Chris Enss is a New York Times best selling author who has penned more than 40 books on the subject of women of the American West. Her work has been honored with multiple awards including eleven Will Rogers Medallion Awards, two Elmer Kelton Book Awards, two Foreword Review Magazine Book Awards, Oklahoma Center of the Book Award, the Laura Downing Journalism Award, and a Willa Cather Award for scholarly nonfiction from Women Writing the West. Enss’s most recent book is entitled Tilghman: The Legendary Lawman and the Woman Who Inspired Him.
Awards: Will Rogers Medallion Award winner, Academy of Western Artists Elmer Kelton Book Award, Oklahoma Center of the Book Award, the Laura Downing Journalism Award, and the Willa Cather Award for scholarly nonfiction work from Women Writing the West.