Biography of Walter Satterthwait 
Walter Satterthwait has lived in New York City, Portland, Oregon, and abroad in Africa, Thailand, Greece, the Netherlands, England, and France. He has worked as an encyclopedia salesman, a proofreader, a bartender, and a restaurant manager.

When Satterthwait was living in New York, working as a bartender in 1976 and getting a much rejection slips for the literary short stories he was sending out. A friend of Satterthwait knew someone at Dell, and the friend suggested that he slap together a proposal -- a couple of chapters and an outline -- for an adventure novel. And so he wrote the first 2 chapters of “COCAINE BLUES”, and an outline, and Dell bought it as a paperback original, and then they also bought the proposal for a second book, “THE AEGEAN AFFAIR”.

His first novel, “Cocaine Blues”, was finally published in 1979. His most recent books are “Masquerade”, a sequel to “Escapade”; and “Accustomed to the Dark”, the fifth book in a series featuring Santa Fe detectives Joshua Croft and Rita Mondragon. “Wall of Glass”, the first book in the Joshua Croft series, was nominated for a Shamus award by the Private Eye Writers of America. Escapade was nominated for an Agatha award ; and, in France, it won the Prix du Roman d'Aventures.

Walter Satterthwait works five days a week, giving himself weekends off, just like a normal person has, but these tend to vanish toward the end, when he is running up against a deadline.

He started reading mysteries pretty early on, when he was something like 12. For most of Satterthwait high school years, he was reading books by Mickey Spillane, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald and John D. MacDonald.

Currently, Walter Satterthwait lives on the road.