About the Author

William Bernhardt is the bestselling author of more than forty books, including The Game Master, the blockbuster Ben Kincaid series (Primary Justice), a poetry book (The White Bird), and Nemesis: The Final Case of Eliot Ness, which is currently in development as a miniseries. In addition, Bernhardt founded the Red Sneaker Writing Center, hosting conferences and small-group retreats and becoming one of the most in-demand writing instructors in the nation. His programs have educated many authors now with major publishers.

Bernhardt holds a Masters Degree in English Literature and is the only writer to have received the Southern Writers Guild’s Gold Medal Award, the Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award (University of Pennsylvania) and the H. Louise Cobb Distinguished Author Award (Oklahoma State), which is given "in recognition of an outstanding body of work that has profoundly influenced the way in which we understand ourselves and American society at large." In addition to the novels, he has written plays, including a musical (book and music), humor, nonfiction, children’s books, biography, and New York Times crossword puzzles. OSU dubbed him “Oklahoma’s Renaissance Man,” noting that in addition to producing novels, he can “write a sonnet, play a sonata, plant a garden, try a lawsuit, teach a class, cook a gourmet meal, prepare homemade ice cream, beat you at Scrabble, and solve a Rubik’s Cube in under five minutes.”

He lives in Oklahoma with his wife and children.