Award-winning author, E. A. Coe … is F. Coe Sherrard, a former United States Naval aviator and career businessman, who is retired and lives in Edinburg, Virginia. A graduate of Western Maryland College (now called McDaniel College), he was a senior executive in two entertainment companies, including Spirit Cruises and Herschend Family Entertainment (manager of the Dollywood Theme Park). Married to Jean since 1971, Coe has three children and six grandchildren. Coe won a silver medal in the 2022 International Readers Favorite Book competition in the Crime Fiction genre for The Other Side Of Good. That novel also won first place in the Crime Thriller and Drama genres of the Outstanding Creators Awards, received a Gold Book Award from Literary Titan and was a finalist in the 2021 Indie Today Book Awards.