FRANK DELANEY is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Ireland, Tipperary, and Shannon, and his nonfiction work Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea was selected as one of the American Library Association Books of the Year. Formerly a judge for the Booker Fiction Prize, he worked for many years as a broadcaster with the BBC in England, where he also wrote many fiction and nonfiction bestsellers. Born in Ireland, he now lives in the United States.