Bendell, Don: - With a master's degree in leadership from Grand Canyon University, 4-time Amazon best-selling western and military author Don Bendell has written 31 books, with over 3,000,000 copies in print worldwide. He is a former US Army Special Forces (Green Beret) captain, and 100% disabled Vietnam veteran. Don is also a widely read and controversial editorialist and has appeared on Fox News and many national radio shows, newspapers, and blogs. Don is a Grandmaster Instructor in 4 different martial arts and black sash instructor in Muay Thai kickboxing. He is a 1995 inductee into the International Karate and Kickboxing Hall of Fame and retired from teaching in 2014. In 2011, he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Tracks of Hope, a Modern-Day Western. In the past, Don wrote, produced, directed, and co-starred in a successful low budget action/adventure feature film, The Instructor, 1984: Shapiro Entertainment Corporation/Vestron, Hollywood, CA.