Ronald Frame was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and educated there and at Oxford University. Five of his novels have been published in the United States. The most recent, The Lantern Bearers (Counterpoint), was named Scottish Book of the Year and honored by the American Library Association. He also writes drama for radio and television. Forty stories set in Carnbeg have been published in magazines and journals in North America and Australia, and another fifteen broadcast on BBC national radio in Great Britain. (A collection, Time in Carnbeg, was released in 2004.) Frame has just completed a new novel manuscript, a 1950s crime passionel set in the town. (updated 10/2008)