T. T. Flynn (1902–1979) was born in Indianapolis, and lived much of his life on the road. With a taste for adventure since the age of fourteen, Flynn explored the vast terrain of the American West and took up various jobs as a fireman, oiler, mess boy, steersman, and ship’s carpenter. Flynn’s Western fiction increasingly came to encompass a concern for ethical principles and values, and his belief that there must be a balance in all things. He died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.