Author Leo Frankowski Dies

Author Leo Frankowski was found dead on 25 December 2008 in Lake Elsinore, California, when he failed to arrive for a Christmas dinner at which he was expected. Born 13 February 1943 in Detroit, Michigan, he had recently returned to the US after living in Russia for four years.
Frankowski is best known for his “Adventures of Conrad Stargard” series (which Wikipedia describes as “a series in which a twentieth-century engineer travels back in time to thirteenth-century Poland.” The seven novels in the series (which have been translated into Italian, Spanish, and Polish), were originally published by Del Rey, and currently under contract to Baen for republication (the books, which he discusses on this page, include: Copernick’s Rebellion, The Cross Time Engineer, The High Tech Knight, The Radiant Warrior, The Flying Warlord, Lord Conrad’s Lady, and The Quest for Rubber).
His eight most recent novels had been published, and were still available, from Baen Books at this link. They include: Conrad’s Lady (published in hardcover in December 2005), Conrad Stargard: The Radiant Warrior (March 2004), Kren of the Mitchegai (March 2004, co-written with Dave Grossman), The Two-Space War (February 2004, co-written with Dave Grossman), The War With Earth (July 2003, co-written with Dave Grossman), Conrad’s Time Machine (September 2002), The Fata Morgana (August 1999), and A Boy and His Tank (March 1999).
Frankowski was nominated for the 1987 John W. Campbell Award for Best New SF Writer. Outside of his writing, he was a scientist and engineeer, and held several patents in chemical and optical instrumentation. His web site has a lot of information about him, both as a writer and a person.