“The simple theme of my life is to leave the world better than I found it.”

L. N. Schofield was born in Wyoming, raised in New Mexico and California, and lives in North Carolina. As a child, he was immersed in the story-telling culture of the Southwest by the songs, stories and adventures of his family of pioneers, cowboys, and craftsmen. Additional influences came from the surrounding culture of Spanish, Navajo, Mexican, and Black peoples he encountered. Their stories and all the others he has since discovered has created a deep appreciation for the way story shapes people’s self-understanding and its power to reform those understandings. As a writer, he follows in the steps of his pioneer grandmother and legendary great-grandfather in the Old West. He is completing Hominy Creek – a tale of hope, loss, and reconciliation in the American Revolution during the critical battles in the backcountry and mountains of Western North Carolina. He is a member of the North Carolina Writer’s Network and the North Carolina Poetry Society.

The notes of authenticity in his writing spring from working alongside migrant workers, cowboys, loggers, dairymen, farmers, airplane builders, artists, writers, scholars, teachers, carpenters, craftsmen, mechanics, breadmen, grocers, First Nation people and a little old lady he helped across the street when he was a Boy Scout!