DAVID BLACK is an award-winning journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and producer, and the author of Fast Shuffle. He has written and produced multiple television shows, including Law And Order and CSI: Miami. Among his prizes are a Mystery Writers' of America Special Award for Murder At The Met, two other Edgar nominations, the National Magazine Award for Reporting, a Pulitzer Prize nomination for The Plague Years, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Fiction, the Science-in-Society Award, and multiple Emmy nominations. His novel Like Father was named a notable book of the year by the New York Times and listed as one of the seven best novels of the year by the Washington Post. Black makes his home in New York.