Question: Cold Mountain was based on the novel written by whom?
Context: The Great Balsam Mountains, or Balsam Mountains, are in the mountain region of western North Carolina, United States.  The Great Balsams are a subrange of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which in turn are a part of the Appalachian Mountains.  The most famous peak in the Great Balsam range is Cold Mountain, which is the centerpiece of author Charles Frazier's bestselling novel "Cold Mountain". "The Scarlet Tide" is a song written by T-Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello and performed by Alison Krauss from the 2003 film "Cold Mountain" Cold Mountain is a 2003 American epic war drama film written and directed by Anthony Minghella.  The film is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Charles Frazier.  It stars Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renée Zellweger in leading roles as well as Natalie Portman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Melora Walters, Jena Malone, Donald Sutherland, Brendan Gleeson, Ray Winstone, Eileen Atkins, Jack White, Kathy Baker, Cillian Murphy and Giovanni Ribisi in supporting roles. The Art Loeb Trail is a 30.1 mi trail located in Pisgah National Forest in Western North Carolina.  The northern terminus is at the Daniel Boone Boy Scout Camp in Haywood County, while the trail's southern terminus is located near the Davidson River Campground, near Brevard, in Transylvania County.  Along the way, the trail traverses several significant peaks, including Black Balsam Knob (6,214 ft), Tennent Mountain (6040 ft) and Pilot Mountain (5095 ft).  The trail also passes the base of Cold Mountain, made famous by the novel and film. Cold Mountain is a 1997 historical novel by Charles Frazier which won the U.S. "You Will Be My Ain True Love" is a song written and performed by Sting and Alison Krauss from 2003, in the film "Cold Mountain".  The song was nominated for an Academy Award, a Grammy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Cold Mountain is an American opera in two acts and an epilogue, with music by Jennifer Higdon and the libretto by Gene Scheer, based on Charles Frazier's 1997 novel of the same name.  The opera is a co-commission between Santa Fe Opera, Opera Philadelphia and the Minnesota Opera, in collaboration with North Carolina Opera.  The opera received its world premiere at Santa Fe Opera on 1 August 2015.  This production coincided with the 150th anniversary of the ending of the American Civil War.  Opera Philadelphia gave its first performance of the opera, in a slightly revised form, on 5 February 2016.  Minnesota Opera is scheduled to stage the opera in 2018, as part of its 'New Works Initiative'. William Allaudin Mathieu (born 1937) is a composer, pianist, choir director, music teacher, and author.  He began recording his music and compositions in the 1970s on his record label, Cold Mountain Music.  Mathieu has composed and recorded solo piano works, chamber pieces, choral music, and song cycles, and he has written four books on music, music theory, and how to live a musical life. Cold Mountain is the soundtrack for the Civil War film "Cold Mountain" (2003) starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renée Zellweger.  The album was nominated for two Grammy Awards and was produced by T Bone Burnett.  Two songs were nominated for Academy Awards: "You Will Be My Ain True Love", written by Sting, and "The Scarlet Tide", written by Burnett and Elvis Costello.  Both songs were sung by Alison Krauss. Thirteen Moons is an historical novel published in October 2006 by American author Charles Frazier, his second book after the award-winning "Cold Mountain".  Set in the mid-nineteenth century, the novel is loosely based on the life of William Holland Thomas, a Confederate Army officer during the American Civil War and Principal Chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians—the only white man to ever hold that position.  "Thirteen Moons" depicts the social and political climate preceding and following the Cherokee Removal from the ancestral homeland of the Cherokee Nation in what is today Western North Carolina.
Answer: Charles Frazier