Author Terry Bisson’s interest in abolitionist John Brown dates from his days as an activist in the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. In addition to his award-winning science fiction stories and novels, Bisson has written children’s books, comics, screenplays and biographies of Brown, Nat Turner and Mumia Abu Jamal. A native of Kentucky, and a New Yorker for thirty years, Bisson currently lives in California. www.terrybisson.com