Biography - PAUL KELSO- Kelso has gotten farther into the world of fiction! His new novella PURPLE HEARTS (Won't Pay The Rent) just came out as a Kindle offering on September 7th. Although he is currently working on another powerlifting book, Kelso's tale of Carl Donner's search for the truth about his father's death in an industrial accident during a rigged labor union election when the searcher was a baby is drawn from the author's years of interviewing old timers from the Great Depression days for an AFL-CIO oral history project in Iowa. More novellas are on the way in coming months, to join 'Hearts' and Kelso's positively reviewed short story collection, JACK RUBY'S LAST RIDE. Active in the world of weights for fifty years, Paul Kelso has published over 100 articles and three books on the iron game. An Asian correspondent for POWERLIFTING USA magazine since 1989, he has reported six Asian Championships, two IPF World Championships and the 2001 World Games, plus multiple national championships in Japan and the Philippines..Kelso sang folksongs throughout the sixties and seventies, performing in Midwestern TV shows and concerts, clubs etc. He earned a BA in History at North Texas State, 1961, and an MA in American Studies, University of Iowa, 1979. He acted as a historian for the Iowa AFL-CIO, 1977-1979, sold fishing tackle, 1971-75, played reporter and columnist for newspapers and was Dean of Student Affairs at Lon Morris College in East Texas, 1983-85. Arriving in Japan in August, 1989, to visit his exchange teacher son Devin, Kelso stayed on as a corporate and university English teacher until 2006. In this seventeen year time window he began traveling throughout Asia as correspondent for POWERLIFTING USA magazine and serving as contributing editor for NETWORKING, an expatriate monthly published in Tochigi prefecture north of Tokyo. He began publishing short fiction in literary journals in 2001.In May, 2006, Kelso and wife Sumiko retired from teaching in Japan and moved to the Philippines, where they now live in a beach town SW of Manila.Other basic Vitae: b. Feb. 6, 1937, Fort Worth, TX. Lived in Chicago during WW II. Grades and High School Dallas, grad 1954. Southern Methodist U., 1955. US Army Medical Corps, 1956-58, Berlin Crisis reserve call-up October, '61 - April, '62.