G. Clifton Wisler is the author of more than sixty-three books, many of them are historical fiction for young adults. Historical fiction is a sub-genre of Fiction that often portrays alternate accounts or dramatization of historical figures or events Wisler lives in Plano, Texas, where he continues to work on his doctoral dissertation on the history of the Ninth Texas Infantry Regiment in the American Civil War. Plano (ˈpleɪnoʊ is a city in Collin and Denton Counties in the U Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South