Award-winning author Robert Brighton is an authority on the Gilded Age, and a great believer that the Victorian era was anything but stuffy. On the contrary, in his books Brighton takes special care to expose the turbulent passions of the era, often kept carefully under wraps but always bubbling just below the surface—against a backdrop of careful research on the places, sights, sounds, and smells of the time.

When he is not walking the streets of Buffalo, sniffing out unsolved mysteries, Brighton is an adventurer. He has traveled in more than 50 countries around the world, personally throwing himself into every situation his characters will face—from underground ruins to opium dens—and (so far) living to tell about it.

A graduate of the Sorbonne, Paris, Brighton is an avid student of early 20th Century history and literature, an ardent and relentless investigator, and an admirer of Emily Dickinson and Jim Morrison.

Currently he lives in Virginia with his wife and their two cats.