Thomas McGuane lives in Sweet Grass County, Montana. He is the author of eight previous novels—The Sporting Club, The Bushwacked Piano, Ninety-two in the Shade, Panama, Nobody’s Angel, Something to Be Desired, Keep the Change, and Nothing but Blue Skies—and a collection of stories, To Skin a Cat, as well as two collections of essays, Some Horses and The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing.