Brad Dimock

Flagstaff author, Brad Dimock, spent two years searching for the truth behind the Hyde mystery, digging through archives, traversing the continent, following each clue and lead to its end - even going to the extreme of replicating the Hydes' archaic scow and taking his own bride on a harrowing trip through Grand Canyon. His profusely illustrated book, Sunk Without a Sound, The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde, details the search and the findings in a riveting, often humorous style. Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award and the Arizona Highways Nonfiction Book Award. Dimock, who spent more than twenty-five years as an international whitewater guide, spins a yarn as only someone who has stood around a thousand campfires can.

Brad Dimock was born in Ithaca, New York, and earned a Bachelor of Arts from Prescott College in central Arizona. He proceeded to squander his education for more than twenty-five years as a commercial boatman in Grand Canyon and the rivers of Utah, Alaska, Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Ethiopia, and Tanzania. He is now a writer and aspiring hermit living in Flagstaff, Arizona, with his lovely wife, boatman Jeri Ledbetter.

He has written for numerous magazines and has stories in several anthologies. He was one of three authors that collaborated on The Doing of the Thing; the Brief, Brilliant Whitewater Career of Buzz Holmstrom, which won the National Outdoor Book Award in 1998. Sunk Without a Sound is his first full length book.

David Edwards photo, ©2001

Discovery Channel Special called Grand Canyon Mystery was made of the Hyde’s tragic honeymoon adventure based on Brad’s book.

Visit his website: http://www.fretwater.com/author.html

Lisa Michaels

Lisa Michaels is an award-winning poet and the author of a memoir, Split: A Counterculture Childhood, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her first novel, Grand Ambition was nominated for a Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and an IMPAC Literary Award, and named by Booklist as one of the top ten first novels of 2001. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Salon, The Threepenny Review, and Tin House. She lives in northern
California with her husband and sons.

Visit Lisa’s website: http://www.lisamichaelsbooks.com/index.html