Beau Lee Gambold lived in Texas, Tennessee, Colorado, Missouri, and Mississippi all by the age of nine. In high school he was nationally ranked in karate, and after college he got to travel and work for a presidential campaign. When the campaign ended, Beau joined the Peace Corps, where he spent almost three years in Thailand.
While in Thailand, Beau became a Buddhist monk for a short time, and he also fell in love with books. When he came back to America, he put everything else aside, got a job in a restaurant, and started writing. He hasn’t stopped since.
Today Beau lives just outside New York City with his wife, his baby daughter, two very specific cats, and a garden overflowing with tomatoes and dahlias. His wife is a theater genius and a Pulitzer finalist, and she first introduced him to Shakespeare, often by picking a play at random and telling him all about it on long subway rides home.
The love of his life soon brought him around to a shared love of the Bard, and today Beau is at work on a number of Shakespeare-related stories and books. When he isn’t writing, Beau can often be found in his garden or in the woods, hiking and looking for mushrooms to eat. He usually has a camera with him—he loves taking pictures—but he almost always has a book!
