Wood, Donald C.

Donald C. Wood is an anthropologist who lives and works in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan. A native of Texas, he earned B.A. and M.A. degrees at Texas A&M University in the 1990s. In 2004 he received a doctoral degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Tokyo. This novel, which draws on a convergence of Asian folktales and fables, is his first.