About the Author

Greg Garrett is a novelist, memoirist, and theologian and cultural critic who has written or co-written twenty critically-acclaimed books, and published forty short stories in the US, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. His novel Free Bird was chosen by Publishers' Weekly and the Denver Rocky Mountain News as one of the top fiction debuts of 2002. He is a past winner of the Pirate's Alley William Faulkner Prize for Fiction, and an elected member of the Texas Institute of Letters. His latest book is The Prodigal, a novel written with the legendary Brennan Manning, which received a starred review in Publishers Weekly.