Michael Newton (September 16, 1951 – September 6, 2021)[1] was an American author best known for his work on Don Pendleton's The Executioner book series.
He also published 91 nonfiction articles and 58 shorter pieces, including chapters in several best-selling true-crime anthologies.
In 2017 Newton received the Lifetime Achievement Peacemaker Award from Western Fictioneers, honoring his publication of 62 western novels.
[citation needed] Newton's Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology won the American Library Association's award for Outstanding Reference Work in 2006.
The book features 2,744 entries on cryptozoology with a glossary and lengthy bibliography.