Ed Marohn was an executive for 30 years with Continental AG and Michelin Tire Corporation, both International Fortune 500 companies. Before his corporate career, he served in the US Army and earned his Airborne Badge before joining the 25th Infantry Division and the 101st Airborne (Airmobile) Division in the Vietnam War. As a Field Artillery captain, he commanded Battery C of the 2/11 Field Artillery and was awarded three Bronze Stars, one Air Medal, and two Army Commendation Medals. After his combat tour, the army assigned him as the Assistant Professor of Military History at the University of Nevada, Reno. His other military assignments included Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Bayreuth, Germany; Washington, DC; and Sögel, Germany. Trained by the US State Department in the Dutch language, the army assigned him to The Netherlands as NATO Liaison and Nuclear Surety Officer. He earned an MA in Counseling (psychology) from the University of Nevada and a BA in Political Science from the University of Idaho.
After retiring from the corporate world, he volunteered as a VA group therapy facilitator for veterans with PTSD from 2008 to 2016. Additionally, he served as the Vice-Chairman of the Idaho Humanities Council (National Endowment for the Humanities) from 2010 to 2016. Concurrently, he was a Board Member of the Idaho Falls City Club. 2014, he was also elected to a four-year term with the Idaho Falls City Council.
He has written as a newspaper columnist and published fiction and non-fiction articles in Idaho Magazine, Hard-Boiled Mystery Magazine, Army Magazine, and various business journals.
He has traveled extensively: Japan, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Panama, Spain, France, England, Germany, Austria, Finland, Denmark, Holland, Sweden, Mexico, Ecuador, Tahiti, Canada, and Hungary. The most significant trip was his return to Vietnam—now the Socialist Republics of Vietnam—some forty years after the war. His first novel, Legacy of War, was conceptualized there.
His third sequel novel, Legacy of Lies: A John Moore Mystery, was published on February 4, 2024. All three novels are available in eBook and print, and you can order them through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other book retailers.
