Don Daglow’s creation of Neverwinter Nights, which ran for six years on AOL, earned a 2008 Technical Emmy(R) Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. He has won awards as a game designer, a novelist, a playwright and an engineer, as well as being honored three times as an Inc. 500 CEO. He wrote his first novel, a science fiction epic, at age 12 and his first stage drama at age 16. After studying theatre with Dr. Steven C. Young at Pomona College and earning his B.A. in Writing, Don won a National Endowment for the Humanities New Voices Playwriting Competition, and his work has also appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Don’s writing has graced many games during his long career, and in 2003 he received the CGE Award for "groundbreaking accomplishments that shaped the Video Game Industry." Don Daglow’s family has lived in San Francisco and Marin for four generations, and his passion for this unique setting shines through in his writing. He works near the Sausalito Ferry, and he and his wife Marta have lived in three different Sausalito neighborhoods.