James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, three-time winner of the Edgar Award and the Grand Master Award from Mystery Writers of America, winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger and Gold Dagger, the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He has authored forty-three novels and three short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana.
