David Guterson is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist. He is best known as the author of the bestselling Japanese American internment novel Snow Falling on Cedars.
His new novel is Evelyn in Transit (2026), the story of a free-spirited woman who hitchhikes across the American West taking odd jobs. One day, a trio of Buddhist lamas show up at her door to announce that her five-year-old son Cliff is the seventh reincarnation of the illustrious Norbu Rinpoche, the Tibetan Buddhist master—setting off a family crisis and a media firestorm over Cliff’s future. Paul Harding called it, “an inspired portrait that is both cosmic and sacred.”
His website is https://www.davidguterson.com/
He wrote about his first truck for Midnight Mind Number Three.