David Daniel was born in Boston and grew up on the South Shore, where he learned to surf. His novel The Heaven Stone won the St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America Best First Private Eye Novel contest and was a Shamus award nominee. In addition to seven novels, including White Rabbit and The Skelly Man, he has written for Surfer magazine and has published more than 70 short stories. He is currently the Jack Kerouac Visiting Writer in Residence at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.