David Adams Richards was born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, in 1950. He has published ten acclaimed novels, including the award-winning Miramichi trilogy: Nights Below Station Street, winner of the 1988 Governor General’s Award; Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace (1990), winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award; and For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down (1993), winner of the Thomas Raddall Award. Mercy Among the Children (2000) was co-winner of the prestigious Giller Prize.

Richards has also published three non-fiction books, most recently the Governor General’s Award-winning fishing memoir Lines on the Water (1998).

From Amazon.ca: "David Adams Richards writes about people from the wrong side of the tracks with poignancy and compassion. Nights Below Station Street is set, like all of Richards's work, in small-town New Brunswick....Written in an easy-flowing, realistic mode, this deceptively simple novel explores the day-to-day lives and trials of a handful of concisely drawn, compelling characters.

"Adele is a feisty girl of 15, strong-headed, entering adulthood in a tumbling erratic rush. Her mother, Rita, who watches children and cleans houses, is solid and hard-working, the pillar of the family, which also includes the father, Joe, a hapless but cheerful drunk, and Milly, a younger daughter. Their familial relationships are complicated by their friendship with Myrrha, who lives nearby in a trailer with her spoiled, chubby son Byron."

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