MARC HEBERDEN was born in Spokane, Washington. Of English ancestry on his father's side and Swedish-Scottish on his mother's, his early years found him moving back and forth with his family between the Palouse country of Eastern Washington and the Puget Sound area. Before becoming a journalist and then an award-winning newspaper editor he worked on wheat farms and ranches and as a carpenter. While he regularly spends time in Bellingham WA, he now lives in a small town southwest of Paris.