Randall Wallace was born in Tennessee. He is the author of many previous novels, including The Russian Rose and So Late into the Night. He has also written the screenplay for the film, Pearl Harbor. The Washington Post said of him, 'The reader is held. Wallace knows how to shift scenes, how to build plot and subplot and tie them together, how to create suspense with teasing foreshadowings of hidden pasts and untold histories.'

Randall Wallace now lives in Southern California.

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