"Portrait of an American Rebel" became a best-seller and has gone into four printings.Terrill moved back to Phoenix in 1994 and followed his biography on McQueen with collaborations on actor Edd "Kookie" Byrnes and Barbara Leigh, boxers Aaron Pryor, Ken Norton, and Earnie Shavers (co-authored with Mike Fitzgerald), and basketball legend David Thompson (co-authored by Sean Stormes).