Richard Wiley is author of numerous stories and the novels Soldiers In Hiding (winner of the PEN/?Faulkner Award for Best American Fiction) Fools' Gold, Festival for Three Thousand Maidens, Indigo, Ahmed's Revenge, and Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show ("The best book you've never heard of!"-anonymous). His most recent novel is The Book of Important Moments. Richard has lived and worked in Korea (where he was a Peace Corps volunteer), Japan, Nigeria and Kenya. Many of his stories are taken from those experiences.