William Dietrich is the author of twenty-one books of nonfiction and fiction, including the Ethan Gage series of Napoleonic adventures. He has also set stories in the Roman Empire and Nazi era, and has written extensively about his native Pacific Northwest. As a career journalist, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. He has won the Washington Governor Writer's Award and Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award.