Davis Bunn is a best-selling author with more than eight million books in print. Davis was first published in 1990 and has gone on to have a prolific career with the release of over seventy books across twenty languages. He was born in North Carolina but now lives in Oxfordshire, England, and serves as writer-in-residence at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford. He has won the Christy Award four times and is a member of their Hall of Fame. In 2011 he won the Library Journal Best Book of the Year for Lion of Babylon. Davis also publishes under the pseudonym of Thomas Locke.