Daily Bread: A Novella

Russell Martin's nonfiction book Beethoven's Hair, a United States bestseller and a Washington Post Book of the Year, has been published in twenty-one translated editions and is the subject of a Gemini-award-winning film of the same name. His highly acclaimed book Picasso's War has been published in seven international editions; Out of Silence was named by The Bloomsbury Review as one of fifteen best books of its first fifteen years of publication, and A Story That Stands Like A Dam: Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West won the Caroline Bancroft History Prize. He is currently adapting his second novel, The Sorrow of Archaeology, to the screen.He directed, produced, and wrote the documentary film Beautiful Faces, which won the Silver Palm Award of the Mexico International Film Festival. He produced and co-wrote the Monette Horwitz Prize-winning documentary film Two Spirits, and is an award-winning, internationally published author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Sorrow of Archaeology and Beautiful Islands, as well as many nonfiction books. He has written for Time, the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, and National Public Radio. His books and screenplays have been optioned by Robert Redford's Wildwood Enterprises, actor Dennis Haysbert, the Denver Center Theatre Company, and New World Television, and he is a veteran script doctor and consultant. For twenty years, he taught an annual creative nonfiction course at Colorado College and served on the faculty at numerous writing conferences. He has ghostwritten many books for high-profile clients and has coached and supported a number of other writers on their paths to publishing success.