About Don Wallace Jr.

Don Wallace is a prize-winning journalist and author whose books include The French House: An American Family, a Ruined Maison, and the Village that Restored Them All (2014), Hot Water, a novel (1991), and One Great Game: Two Teams, Two Dreams, in the First-Ever High School Football National Championship Game (2003). His essays, articles and fiction have appeared in such various publications as Harper’s, The New York Times, SELF, Fast Company, Wine Spectator and Naval History. His nonfiction and fiction have covered topics ranging from the American Revolution and Civil Rights movement to Hawaii's special breed of con artists and Miami’s drug-smuggling kingpins. Born in Long Beach, California, he is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of California at Santa Cruz. Now living in Honolulu after 27 years in Manhattan, he returns annually to France with his wife, the author Mindy Pennybacker, both to write and to renew his sense of wonder