ONE RED THREAD is my debut novel, but I've been an award-winning writer of non-fiction books, documentary film scripts, newspaper and magazine journalism, and advertising for years. I've also taught journalism. Like my protagonist Eddy McBride, I've followed architecture as a longtime passion, pursuing graduate coursework in the field and writing widely on the subject, including a history (University of North Carolina Press) supported by a research and writing grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Other non-fiction books on a range of topics have included a best-seller on the Dallas Cowboys (Taylor Publishing). I was raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, majored in English Literature at Hamilton College in New York and now live in Austin, Texas.