Ridley Pearson is the New York Times-bestselling author of over fifty books ranging from suspense thriller novels to young adult and middle grade adventure novels. His novel Peter and the Starcatchers was adapted as a Broadway play and earned the most Tony nominations of any play in history. His novel The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red was also adapted as a film in 2003. Pearson is the recipient of the Raymond Chandler-Fulbright Fellowship at Oxford University and the Quill Award from the Missouri Writers Hall of Fame. He also plays bass guitar in an all-author rock band comprised of other bestselling writers, including Dave Barry, Amy Tan, Mitch Albom, Scott Turow, Greg Iles, and occasionally, Stephen King. He is currently a professor in the creative writing department at Boise State University and lives with his wife in the Northern Rockies.