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Ken Wellsgrew up on the banks of Bayou Black in Louisiana Cajun country and began his writing career as a nineteen-year-old covering car wrecks and alligator sightings for his hometown newspaper. He was a reporter for four years with the Miami Herald, where he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and a writer and editor for The Wall Street Journal for twenty-four years. Wells left the Journal in 2006, to take a job as a senior editor and writer for Conde Nast Portfolio. He is also the author of four novels set in the Cajun bayous.
When you start a book neck-deep in a swamp of cottonmouths, wasps, leeches and mosquitoes, you'd better have a good story to tell. Ken Wells does, and he tells it with vigor and charm. --The Seattle Times A Cajun-flavored tall tale of the bayous . . . colorful, compelling . . . Wells has a gift for capturing his locale, and he gives us a spectacular tour. --St. Louis Post-Dispatch Wells has festooned [his characters'] ordeal with as much humor as a writer can stick on a run through hell. [He] describes Logan and his situations, however wet, with a dry, Cajun fatalism. . . . [One finds] plenty of pleasure in the language and sense of place that dominate. --The Miami Herald Don't give up on Logan LaBauve. 'Cause he's about to meet up with a hell of a woman and a hell of a hurricane that shows what he's really made of. --The Wall Street Journal When you start a book neck-deep in a swamp of cottonmouths, wasps, leeches and mosquitoes, you'd better have a good story to tell. Ken Wells does, and he tells it with vigor and charm. The Seattle Times A Cajun-flavored tall tale of the bayous . . . colorful, compelling . . . Wells has a gift for capturing his locale, and he gives us a spectacular tour. St. Louis Post-Dispatch Wells has festooned [his characters ] ordeal with as much humor as a writer can stick on a run through hell. [He] describes Logan and his situations, however wet, with a dry, Cajun fatalism. . . . [One finds] plenty of pleasure in the language and sense of place that dominate. The Miami Herald Don t give up on Logan LaBauve. Cause he s about to meet up with a hell of a woman and a hell of a hurricane that shows what he s really made of. The Wall Street Journal
