Collins, Ellwyn K.

Ellwyn K. Collins is qualified to write on naval subjects having served for three years in the Navy in the Pacific theater, and two years in the Korean War. His background drove him to write Deep Six to air things that never surface in "naval investigations."

His first effort, 1992's "Unprepared", was published after his wife had a stroke. Life has never been the same.

He and his wife Connie live just south of the Minnesota River in Burnsville, a third-ring suburb of Minneapolis. They travel the state speaking on strokes and their causes. Radio, television and newspapers fill much of t...