Theodore Wheeler is the bestselling author of three novels, most recently the USA Today bestseller The War Begins in Paris (Little Brown, Nov 14, 2023). His other novels include Kings of Broken Things (Little A, 2017), an Amazon bestseller, and In Our Other Lives (Little A, 2020), both of which are set on the Great Plains. He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Nebraska Arts Council, and Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. For fourteen years Theodore worked as a journalist who covered law and politics, and he now teaches creative writing in the English Department at Creighton University.