Peter Scott was raised in Maryland and is a veteran of the Vietnam War as a U.S. Army Officer. All of his books deal with themes of war and peace, including the 2007 published Barter Island (Down East Books), which has been praised by Tim OʼBrien as "tender, funny, sad and scary." The Boy who Came Walking Home and Something in the Water are prequels to Barter Island. In 1998 he published Lost Crusade: America's Secret Cambodian Mission. His latest book, In Deer Isle, Maine, is about the 16th Maine Volunteer regiment that was nearly annihilated at Gettysburg. An English teacher at Hawken School, Peter lives in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.