RICHARD SCOTT SACKS

Richard Scott Sacks is an award-winning novelist, writer, and US diplomat, a world traveler whose career placed him in the crosshairs of diplomacy, conflict, and political consequence - crisscrossing conflict zones in Africa, the Middle East, and the United States in his youth, then in Foreign Service postings in Pakistan, Panama, Korea, Vietnam, Morocco, Mexico, Congo-Zaire, and Washington, DC. Mr. Sacks's debut novel, the critically acclaimed Drinking from the Stream, swept political thriller, literary fiction, and action/adventure award categories, winning accolades by the dozen. A former newspaper and wire service reporter, Mr. Sacks wrote for The Miami Herald from Asuncion, Paraguay; the Associated Press (Detroit, Michigan); and The Middlesex News (Framingham, Massachusetts). Mr. Sacks holds master's degrees from National War College and Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). His academic study, Paraguay: The Personalist Legacy, with SAIS professor Riordan Roett, was named Outstanding Academic Book by Choice Magazine. He, his wife, Aida, and their children live near Washington, DC.