**DANIEL KRAUS *is a New York Times bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film. His recent novel, Whalefall *, received a front-cover review in The New York Times Book Review, won the Alex Award, was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, and was named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR, The New York Time...

**DANIEL KRAUS *is a New York Times bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film. His recent novel, Whalefall *, received a front-cover review in The New York Times Book Review, won the Alex Award, was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, and was named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR, The New York Times, Amazon, Chicago Tribune, and more. With Guillermo del Toro, he cowrote The Shape of Water, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film.