Russell Martin has written articles and commentary for National Public Radio, the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Time, the New Statesman, and many other publications in U.S. and the U.K.

His highly acclaimed book, Picasso's War: The Destruction of Guernica, and the Masterpiece That Changed the World, was published in 2002, and has been reprinted in six international editions. He is the author of Beethoven's Hair (2000), a U.S. bestseller and winner of the Colorado Book Award, which has been published in nineteen editions around the world and is the subject of an international television documentary. His 1994 book, Out of Silence, was named by the Bloomsbury Review as one of fifteen best books of its first fifteen years of publication.  A Story That Stands Like A Dam: Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West (1989), won the Caroline Bancroft History Prize.

He also is the author of the novel Beautiful Islands (1988); The Color Orange: A Super Bowl Season with the Denver Broncos (1987); Matters Gray and White: A Neurologist, His Patients & the Mysteries of the Brain (1986); Entering Space (co-authored with Joseph P. Allen, 1984), and Cowboy: The Enduring Myth of the Wild West (1983). He has edited two anthologies of contemporary western writing, Writers of the Purple Sage (1984) and New Writers of the Purple Sage (1992).

He is a graduate of The Colorado College in Colorado Springs, where he has returned to teach for eighteen years. In 1995, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by his alma mater.

He lives in Los Angeles.

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