Author C.C. Risenhoover

C.C. Risenhoover is author of 21 published books, 15 of which are novels (six bestsellers), and has penned more than 1,000 published articles for more than 50 magazines. In addition to a hectic writing schedule, he now speaks throughout the country in schools, churches, and to civic and service organizations about class envy, racism, ethnic prejudice and religious intolerance, which, he says, are the primary ingredients for terrorism. He is also considered an expert on cults.

Raised in Jasper, Texas, site of the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd, Jr. (a hate crime that shocked the nation), Risenhoover, who is white, in 1954 became a pitcher for an African American baseball team comprised primarily of players from the Negro leagues. The team played in the South, Southwest, Midwest and Canada, where the then 16-year-old author was subjected to racism up close and personal. He later wrote a novel about the experience, which is currently being developed into a motion picture titled Outside the Lines by Triple Horse Entertainment.

In the early ‘60s, Risenhoover preached in African American churches throughout Louisiana, and during the same period led what is thought to be the first Southern Baptist church in Texas to vote to accept African Americans as members. In 1993, one of his sons, an ATF agent, was wounded at the Branch Davidian shootout in Waco, and in 1997 he interviewed terrorist leaders in the Middle East while writing and directing a film titled Marked for Extinction.

Risenhoover, who has B.A., M.A. and Ph. D degrees, lives in Pecan Plantation near Granbury, Texas with his wife Georgia and their youngest daughter. The couple has seven children.

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