Christopher J. Yates is the author of Black Chalk, Grist Mill Road and The Rabbit Club. Black Chalk was an Indie Next Pick that was also named a best book of the year by NPR, and a “must read” by the Boston Globe, BBC.com and the New York Post. The Rabbit Club was a People “Best Book of July” and a New York Post “Best Beach Read.” He was born in London, studied law at Oxford University and lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.