Peter Scott

Peter Scott is the author of one history and three novels (a fourth recently completed), including the 2007 published Barter Island (Down East Books), which has been praised by legendary fiction writer Tim OʼBrien as "tender, funny, sad and scary, and boy oh boy does Scott nail the setting". The Boy who Came Walking Home and Something in the Water, which the Boston Globe called "A thoroughly engaging novel", are prequels to Barter Island, and all of them deal with themes of war and peace. A veteran of the Vietnam War as a U.S. Army Officer, Peter was raised in Maryland. He earned his M.A. in 1973, and has published 15 short stories and numerous magazine articles. An English teacher at Hawken School, Peter lives in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.