Born and raised in southern California, Don Meredith moved to San Francisco in 1960. Two years later he sailed to Europe, where he lived on a Dalmatian island, then for ten years on a Tuscan farm. Winner of the 1999 George Garrett Fiction Prize, and twice a recipient of fellowships in fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts, he is the author of novels, short stories, essays, and travel articles. Meredith lives on Lamu Island, in Kenya.