John Talisker spends his summers revelling in the beautiful isolation of Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada, while overwintering in Maui's equal paradise.

His interests encompass physics, mathematics, music, art, literature, astronomy, paleontology, anthropology, entomology, geology, and even religion—but he finds the human mind and heart the most interesting and perplexing of all. 

His goal in life is to write the best novels he can.