Art Taylor is the Edgar Award-winning author of two short story collections—The Adventure of the Castle Thief and Other Expeditions and Indiscretions (2023) and The Boy Detective & The Summer of ’74 and Other Tales of Suspense (2020)—and of the novel in stories On the Road with Del & Louise (2015), winner of the Agatha Award for Best First Novel. He has won three additional Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, four Macavity Awards, and four Derringer Awards for his short fiction, and he was the 2025 recipient of the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement. His work has also appeared in Best American Mystery Stories and Best American Mystery and Suspense, and he has edited several mystery anthologies, including Murder Under the Oaks: Bouchercon Anthology 2015, winner of the Anthony Award for Best Anthology or Collection. He is a professor of English at George Mason University.