J. F. Freedman is a New York Times best-selling novelist who has been published in over twenty countries world-wide. He has received rave accolades from The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, and from such authors as Stephen King, Dorothy Allison, Larry Brown, and Robert Parker.

He is also an award-winning writer, producer, and director of over twenty theatrical and television movies, as well as The X-Files, MacGyver, and many other television series. He and his wife live on the central California coast.