Michael Punke

Michael Punke is an American author who has also worked as an attorney, academic and policy analyst, including as a former Deputy United States Trade Representative. He is best known for the novel The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge (2002), which was adapted into the 2015 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. His other books include Last Stand, a history of the near-destruction of the American buffalo, and Ridgeline, the second book in the Sioux Wars series.