About Craig McDonald
Craig McDonald, author of El Gavilan, is an
Edgar®-nominee and an award-winning journalist, editor and
fiction writer. His short fiction has appeared in literary
magazines, anthologies and several online crime fiction sites. His
debut novel, Head Games, was published by Bleak House
Books in September 2007. Head Games was selected as a 2008
Edgar®-nominee for Best First Novel by an American Author. Head
Games was also a finalist for the Anthony, Gumshoe and Crimespree
Magazine awards for best first novel. His nonfiction books
include Art in the Blood, a collection of interviews with
20 major crime authors which appeared in 2006, and Rogue
Males: Conversations and Confrontations About the Writing Life,
a second collection of interviews published by Bleak House Books
in 2009. McDonald was also a contributor to the NYT's
nonfiction bestseller, Secrets of the Code. He recently
won national awards for his profiles of crime novelists James
Crumley, Daniel Woodrell, James Sallis and Elmore Leonard.
For more information, view Craig McDonald's Web site.