The Author

The historian who reads the fine print

Susan Johnson, Flagstaff, Arizona author and historian

About the Author

Susan Johnson is a Flagstaff, Arizona author, historian, and paranormal researcher: author of Haunted Flagstaff, Wicked Flagstaff, and Flagstaff’s Walkup Family Murders from The History Press, curator of the weekly Flagstaff History column in the Arizona Daily Sun, and co-founder of Freaky Foot Tours.

Featured on Travel Channel's The Dead Files (2022). Two-time Viola Awards finalist. Flagstaff resident since 1989.

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Susan Johnson has lived in Flagstaff since 1989, and Wicked Flagstaff is the book where her archive work has the most fun: the territorial newspapers, the tax rolls, the inquest files, and the town they describe before it tidied itself up. Her other books for The History Press are Haunted Flagstaff and Flagstaff’s Walkup Family Murders.

Her full biography, the weekly Flagstaff History column archive, the press kit, and booking for interviews and appearances live on her author site.

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