Oden, Scott

Hailing from the hills of rural North Alabama, Scott Oden started writing at the age of fourteen, though it would be many years before anything would come of it. In the meantime, he had a brief fling with academia before retiring to the private sector, where he worked the usual roster of odd jobs--from delivering pizza to stacking paper at printing company to clerking at a video store. He is currently a full-time writer, and his novels include "The Lion of Cairo."