David Adams Richards is the author of thirteen novels, including Hope in the Desperate Hour, Mercy Among the Children, co-winner of the prestigious Giller Prize; The Friends of Meager Fortune, winner of a regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book; and, most recently, The Lost Highway. He is also the author of the celebrated Miramichi trilogy: Nights Below Station Street, winner of the Governor General’s Award; Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award; and For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down, winner of the Thomas Raddall Award.

Richards has also written Gemini Award-winning screenplays for the CBC-TV adaptations of his novels For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down and Nights Below Station Street. “Small Gifts,” his original screenplay for CBC-TV, won a Gemini Award and the New York International Film Festival Award for Best Script. His books of non-fiction include Hockey Dreams, the Governor General’s Award-winning fishing memoir Lines on the Water, Playing the Inside Out, and, most recently, God Is.