Robin Yocum
Robin Yocum, Franklin County, Favorite Sons
Robin Yocum was born in 1955 in Steubenville, Ohio, and grew up in the in the Eastern Ohio village of Brilliant. He received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University in 1978. After two years at the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette and the Martins Ferry Times Leader, Robin spent eleven years as a crime and investigative reporter with the Columbus Dispatch. He received numerous writing awards, including those from the Associated Press and the Press Club of Ohio. Robin is the author of two nonfiction books: Dead Before Deadline, and Insured for Murder, which he co-authored with Dispatch reporter Cathy Candisky. He is the principle of Yocum Communications in Westerville. Favorite Sons, his first novel, was named the 2011 Book of the Year for Mystery/Suspense by USA Book News.
