Christopher Chagnon was born February 19, 1951, in Bad Axe, Michigan. Formerly the team photographer for the Detroit Tigers, and now a full-time writer, he has written four best-selling novels, The Runners, and The Chandlerville Chronicles trilogy: The Dregs of Presque Isle, The Ghosts of Presque Isle, and The Soldiers of Presque Isle. His latest book, Noble Grace, is coming out in 2023 He is an award-winning short story writer and photographer living with Nannette, his wife of fifty-one years, in Presque Isle County, near Onaway, Michigan. He manages time to hunt, fish, and play guitar or drums in a rock and roll band when he is not working on a new manuscript.