Michael Gruber was born and raised in New York City. He has a PhD in octopus behavior, and has served as a US army medic, a chef, a roadie, a Washington D.C. policy analyst and speechwriter. Since 1990, however, he has been a full-time writer and is the author of the international bestseller The Book of Air and Shadows. He now lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife, three children and extreme...