Robert McCammon

Robert McCammon is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama, and one of the influential names in the horror boom of the late 1970s through the early 1990s. His work includes the dystopian horror novel Swan Song and the coming-of-age mystery Boy's Life, and by 1991 three of his novels had reached the New York Times bestseller list. Since 2002 he has written a historical mystery series, now ten books long, following Matthew Corbett, a clerk to an 18th-century magistrate, through colonial America.