David Macfarlane is the author of two award-winning bestsellers. His family memoir, The Danger Tree, won the Canadian Authors Assocation Award for non-fiction. His novel, Summer Gone, was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and won the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Mr. Macfarlane has written several short works for theatre'e"among them, The Prank, first performed at the Tarragon Spring Arts Fair, and After Dinner, a play about Harold Pinter, performed, harrowingly enough, in the presence of Mr. Pinter as part of Harbourfront Centre's "World Leaders: A Festival of Creative Genius." He is currently completing a book on the marble quarries of Carrara. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Janice Lindsay, and their two children.