Larry Watson is the author of ten novels, including Montana 1948, White Crosses, American Boy, and Let Him Go, which won the High Plains Book Award for fiction, and was made into a film starring Kevin Costner and Diane Lane. Watson taught at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point for many years, and eventually became a visiting professor at Marquette University. Watson, a native of North Dakota, has won numerous awards, and still lives in Wisconsin with his high school sweetheart, Susan, who he has been married to for 58 years.