Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of theWalt Longmire mystery novels, which are the basis for Longmire, the hit Netflix original drama. The books have won multiple awards: the Nouvel Observateur Prix du Roman Noir, the Wyoming Historical Association’s Book of the Year, Le Prix 813, the Western Writers of America’s Spur Award, the Mountains& Plains Book of the Year, the Prix SNFC du Polar, Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, the Watson Award, Library Journal’s Best Mystery of the Year, the Rocky and the Will Rogers Award for Fiction. Spirit of Steamboat was selected by the Wyoming State Library as the inaugural One Book Wyoming. Johnson lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population twenty-five.