Donald Otis Crane is a writer, screenwriter, filmmaker, and historian. His works include "Tales of the New English," "Sincere Sinner," "Off Season," "Last Yankees," "Wicked Sisters," "Leni/Marlene," "Nightfolk" (with Holly Saknusseneouw) and the upcoming novel, "Dreaming of Freydis."
Mr. Crane has also redesigned Soviet-era movie cameras for college film programs, provided essays for the Akureyri Museum of Art in Iceland, and submitted peace proposals to the Mitchell Commission for Northern Ireland that were fortunately never acted upon.

Mr. Crane lives in Framingham, Massachusetts with a cat and an unknown number of flying squirrels.