Marcia Muller, novelist, short-story writer and anthologist, was born in Detroit in 1944. She attended the University of Michigan, where she studied writing. Edwin of the Iron Shoes (1977) was her first book featuring Sharon McCone, a female private eye strong enough to compete in the male-dominated crime genre. In 1993, Muller was given the Private Eye Writers of America Life Achievement Award, and the following year her novel Wolf in the Shadows won the Anthony Boucher Award and was nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Crime Novel. Marcia Muller lives in Petaluma, California.
Bill Pronzini, Bill Pronzini is best known for his creation of the "Nameless" mystery novels, as well as several westerns and novels of dark suspense. He has been a full time professional writer since 1969, publishing more than fifty novels and six collections of short stories. Pronzini has won 3 Shamus Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award form the Private Eye Mystery Writers of America. He has also received six nominations for the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award. His book "Snowbound" received the Grand Prix de la Litterature Policiere, as the best crime novel published in France in 1988. "Wasteland of Strangers" was nominated for Best Crime Novel in 1997 by both the Mystery… Writers of America and the International Crime Writers Association. Pronzini has established himself as a master of the Western novel as well as earning a name for himself in the dark fiction genre.