LARRY BAKER is the author of six novels. His first, The Flamingo Rising: A Novel, became a Hallmark movie in 2001. He began publishing short stories at the age of 15 and his first novel was published when he was 50. Baker currently lives in Iowa City, Iowa, but is not a graduate of the Writers’ Workshop. Tell It Slant: A Novel by Nobody (Ice Cube Press) is his final novel.