Taylor Brown is the author of six books of historical fiction. His books have won the Southern Book Prize and the Montana Prize in Fiction, been finalists for several other awards, and have been named among the Best Books of the Year by the Atlanta Journal Constitution and NPR. His work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including the North Carolina Literary Review, the Southwest Review, Baltimore Review, Chautauqua, Garden & Gun, The Rumpus, CutBank, storySouth, and many others. He grew up on the Georgia coast and has lived in Buenos Aires, San Francisco, and the mountains of western North Carolina.