Chris Enss is a New York Times best-selling author who has been writing about women of the Old West for more than 20 years. She has penned more than 40 published books on the subject. Her work has been honored with five Will Rogers Medallion Awards, two Elmer Kelton Book Awards, an Oklahoma Center for the Book Award, and was a Western Writers of America Spur Finalist. Her book The Pinks: The First Women Detectives, Operatives, and Spies with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency has been optioned by NBC and is currently in development to become a television series. Enss's most recent works include According to Kate: The Legendary Life of Big Nose Kate Elder, Love of Doc Holliday and No Place for a Woman: The Struggle for Suffrage in the Old West.
