Author: Tom Murphy
Bio: American novelist who is author of “Sky High”, “Aspen Incident”,  “Lily Cigar”, “The Panther Throne”,  “Auction!”, and “Appetites”.

Publisher's bio - "Tom Murphy, after graduating from Harvard College, served as an Intelligence Analyst in the G-2 of Berlin Command in Germany.  After returning to America he went into the advertising business, first as a Creative Supervisor at the J. Walter Thompson Company.  An enthusiastic skier, cook and gardener, he is restoring an 1838 row house in Brooklyn, New York."