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Bio: Les Whitaker grew up on an Ozark farm in the 1950s, where at a young age he learned the value of hard work. When he wasn?t working, he read everything he could get his hands on. One day each week, the bookmobile parked at the post office for a couple of hours, and Les would check out all the books they?d let him take at one time. He says, ?I looked at the shelves and decided that one day, a book with my name on it would be up there, too. I went home and made a place in the smokehouse, got a leftover school notebook and a pencil, and started to write.? That commitment was made when Les was in the seventh grade. He says, ?I?ve put more spare man-hours into writing than all other interests combined. I have to write.? After a very active and stressful working life, Les now puts a premium on calm. On any given morning he works on broken things in one of his three workshops. Then in the afternoon, he retreats to his upstairs lair to write. Later in the day he usually gets in another writing session. Besides writing, his other interest include blacksmithing (only in cold weather); he goes to garage sales and flea markets and finds lots of interesting things, many of which he resells for good money, after repairing them; and he enjoys photography and plans to one day enter some of his best in a show. Les still loves to read about many different things: the medieval economy of western Europe; the silent film industry; and he studies everything he can get his hands on about archeology.