April Christofferson is an American novelist of environmental and political

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, including ''Trapped'', ''Alpha Female'' and ''Buffalo Medicine''.

Background

Christofferson grew up in

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, and frequently spent summers around

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as a child. She continued this tradition with her own children. Several of her thrillers are set in Yellowstone. After earning her Bachelor of Science from the

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, Christofferson went on to study veterinary medicine before attending the

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. She received her

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from Gonzaga in 1983. Before writing full-time, she also worked as an attorney in the

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industry, an experience that has informed her fiction. In addition to writing novels, Christofferson has contributed articles to the ''Yellowstone Discovery'', a quarterly published by the Yellowstone Association.

Books

*''After the Dance'' (1994) *''Edgewater'' (1998) *''The Protocol'' (1999) *''Clinical Trial'' (2000) *''Patent to Kill'' (2003) *''Buffalo Medicine'' (2004) *''Alpha Female'' (2009) *''Trapped'' (2012)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Christofferson, April Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Utah alumni American women novelists 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American thriller writers 21st-century American women writers 20th-century American women writers American women thriller writers Gonzaga University alumni Novelists from Chicago