Don Daglow's creation of Neverwinter Nights, which ran for six years on AOL, earned a 2008 Technical Emmy® Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

His novel "The Fog Seller" has won multiple major independent publishing awards, including the Gold Award for Best Mystery Novel of 2016 from the Readers' Favorite Awards, the Silver Medal for Best Novel of 2016 (Literary or Genre), Pacific Region at the Independent Publisher IPPY Awards, and a Gold Award at the 2016 Independent Book Publishers Assn. Benjamin Franklin Book Awards. 

Don wrote his first novel, a science fiction epic, at age 12 and his first stage drama at age 16. After studying theatre with Dr. Steven C. Young at Pomona College and earning his B.A. in Writing, Don won a National Endowment for the Humanities New Voices Playwriting Competition, and his work has also appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Don's writing has graced many games during his long career, and in 2003 he received the CGE Award for "groundbreaking accomplishments that shaped the Video Game Industry."

Don Daglow's family has lived in San Francisco and Marin for four generations, and his passion for this unique setting shines through in his writing. He works near the Sausalito Ferry, and he and his wife Marta have lived in three different Sausalito neighborhoods.