Born in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, Bernie MacKinnon graduated from the University of Maine at Orono and has published two young-adult novels with Houghton Mifflin, "The Meantime" and "Song For A Shadow." A passionate interest in history and a love of the suspense genre led him to write Lucifer's Drum, a book anchored in many years' research. He now lives and works in Memphis, Tennessee.