Corban Addison is the internationally bestselling author of four novels, A Walk Across the Sun, The Garden of Burning Sand, The Tears of Dark Water (which won the inaugural Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Award), and A Harvest of Thorns, and one work of narrative non-fiction, Wastelands, coming from Alfred A. Knopf in May 2022. An attorney, activist, and world traveler, he is a supporter of numerous humanitarian causes. He lives with his wife and children in Virginia.