Wayne Johnston is the author of several novels. He has won many prestigious awards for his work including the "Books in Canada" First Novel Award for his debut novel, "The Story of Bobby O'Malley", the Canadian Authors Association Award for Most Promising Young Writer, and the Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Award for "The Divine Ryans". Both "The Colony of Unrequited Dreams" and "The Navigator of New York" spent extended periods of time on bestseller lists in Canada and have also been published in the US, Britain, Germany, Holland, China and Spain. "Colony" was identified by the "Globe and Mail" newspaper as one of the 100 most important Canadian books ever produced (including both fiction and non-fiction).

D. Ross is a stay-at-home father, raising children in the countryside of Bucks County, PA. Before fatherhood and husbandry, he studied art history at Tufts and did some time in Boston and Oxford museums.