NOBLE SMITH is an award-winning playwright who has worked as a video-game writer, a documentary-film executive producer, and the media director of an international human rights foundation. He is also the author of the novella "Stolen from Gypsies, " the nonfiction book "The Wisdom of the Shire: A Short Guide to a Long and Happy Life, "and the novel "Sons of Zeus". He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and children.