Brad ShreveAfter growing up in Michigan and North Carolina, Brad Shreve crisscrossed the country while working in the hotel industry. In addition to working in hotels as a bellman, front desk clerk, and reservation call center director, he's managed coffee houss, waited tables, sold potato chips off a truck and even hocked pre-burial funeral plans. He credits Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak for developing his interest in art and storytelling. He'd spend hours on the floor sketching and painting and writing stories. My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George gave him his first inklings that he'd like to be a novelist someday. In addition to perpetually thinking of how to kill people, he's a proud dad, a beach bum, and coffee house squatter. He currently lives in the Los Angeles South Bay with his husband, Maurice. Read More Read Less