Michelle Paver

Michelle Paver is a semi-successful English (actually Malawian) author, known among a few for The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, Dark Matter (for older readers… and by old we mean about six thousand years old.) Paver says she came up with the idea for Wolf Brother after her epic rap battle, I mean singing “Danny Boy” which I haven’t heard of either, to deter a bear on a hike in California back in the 80’s. We can only imagine how her voice was back then. Paver originally planned a medieval setting (cringe) but changed to an epic unga-bunga prehistoric hellscape with literal demons included. Such was the Norway of 3969 B.C. In order to make such a series a reality, she went all over the place, visiting Finland, Lapland, Iceland, Scotland, Greenland, Shetland, and a whole bunch of other “lands”, slowly becoming O N E W I T H N A T U R E along the way.