*Walter, Jess: - Jess Walter is the author of six novels, including The Financial Lives of the Poets and The Cold Millions *. Beautiful Ruins was a New York Times bestseller, and We Live in Water was one of Barack Obama's books of 2019. Jess Walter lives in Spokane, Washington with his family.

*Walter, Jess: - Jess Walter is the author of six novels, including The Financial Lives of the Poets and The Cold Millions *. Beautiful Ruins was a New York Times bestseller, and We Live in Water was one of Barack Obama's books of 2019. Jess Walter lives in Spokane, Washington with his family.