About the Author

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These were the
good ol' days,
when Country Music
ruled.

Poetry was
in the form
of song.

Robert E. in his recording days for Mega Records.

Robert E. Dalton was born Robert E. Lee Dalton on November 16th, 1938, in the small hillside town of Itman, in Wyoming County, in southern West Virginia.

His father, Marvin Dalton, was a coal-miner who was an avid reader and wrote an occasional poem himself. His Mother, Velma Louise, was a Christian and a churchgoer.

Early on, the family moved to the town of Brenton, WV. Robert attended and graduated from Baileysville High School in Baileysville, WV, and also Wyoming County Vocational School in Pineville, WV, in 1956.

He met and married his first wife, Helen, while serving in the U.S. Air Force in Bangor, Maine. The marriage lasted a little more than one year and produced one son: Robert Edward Leroy Dalton.

He met his present wife, Donna, in York, Pennsylvania, and they were married in 1962. They had three children: Douglas, Tawny and Steven, and are still married.

From 1968 to '72, Robert pursued a career in Country Music. He signed with Mega Records and had three songs that made the charts: "Mama Call Me Home", "Tunnel Number Two", and "Blue Skies, Sunshine, My rain".

(Anyone interested in purchasing a CD of all Bob and the Gang's songs just Email the Author.)

The requirements of a recording career, however, conflicted with the Christian values his mother helped to instill in him, and he quit and returned home which, at the time, was in West Palm Beach, Florida.

While in Florida, he took a college course at Palm Beach Junior College in Lake Worth, and earned two credits in creative writing.

Robert wrote poetry and short stories most of his life, but never kept the material. Then, in 1978, when his father died, he decided to finish a collection of writings to honor the memory of one he loved so well. At present, he has a 41,000 word book entitled "The Complete Works of an Ignorant Hillbilly", for which we are now accepting offers from publishers.

In his book, he has built all the writings around a central theme: The exoneration of the Hillbilly from the tag of "inherently ignorant". This has been accomplished by including writings that range from the absolute hilarious to the deeply philosophical, to illustrate that the "ignorant" hillbilly is quite capable of giving an excellent account of himself in all types of literature.

Verse, short stories and rhyming narratives shown on the internet are excerpts from the book, and are all copyrighted by the author. We sincerely hope you enjoy these works and will return many times.

Robert's favorite statement is this: "Life is just a dream...reality is yet to come." It is his belief that we should live our lives in the light of that truth.