Michael Cadnum is the author of thirty-five books, including the National Book Award finalist The Book of the Lion.  A two-time Edgar Allen Poe Award nominee, and an award-winning poet, Cadnum’s work is widely acclaimed.

He lives in Albany, California, with his wife Sherina.
 


 

Cadnum's peerless historical fiction rewards readers of any age.

                                             Smithsonian

Cadnum knocks us off our platitudes and sends us sliding elsewhere...and we are smoothly swept into a new field of perception. 

                                              Ted Kooser, The Georgia Review 

More than anything
bright points of

yet to bloom
daffodils

                       from Peril on the Sea