Born in Flint, Michigan, Theodore Weesner has aptly been described as a "Writer's Writer" by the larger literary community. His short works have been published in the New Yorker, Esquire, Saturday Evening Post, Atlantic Monthly, and Best American Short Stories. His novels, including The Car Thief, The True Detective, Winning the City, and Harbor Lights, have been published to great critical acclaim in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, the LA Times, and others. He died in June, 2015.