Armand Croft is a fourth-generation Californian raised on a mink ranch on the Central Coast. He graduated from the University of the Pacific and The University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. After internship and residency training in San Francisco he practiced pathology for thirty years. He has been writing full-time since 2005. Dr. Croft has two grown sons, Armand III and Ewan. He and his wife, Xiao-lin, divide their time between homes in San Francisco and Trinity County.