David Guterson is the author of the novels Snow Falling on Cedars, East of the Mountains and Our Lady of the Forest; a collection of short stories, The Country Ahead Of Us, The Country Behind, and of the non-fiction book Family Matters: Why Home Schooling Makes Sense. Snow Falling on Cedars won the PEN/ Faulkner Award. David Guterson lives in Washington State.

'Remarkable a highly significant contribution to American literature' Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland 'Guterson's books keep getting better A moving portrait of male friendship' New York Times 'A fine novel [of] gentle, intelligent sadness' Independent 'A powerfully wrought mixture of a coming-of-age novel, a meditation on the environment, a satire on American mores Guterson writes beautiful, persuasive prose, harking back to Hemingway, with a glimmer of wit that brings a modern sensibility' Daily Telegraph