WILL WEAVER has written numerous novels, including Defect, winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Young Adult Literature, and Full Service, a YALSA Best Book for Young Adults. Mr. Weaver lives in Bemidji, Minnesota, and is the owner of black No. 16, a Modified race car co-sponsored by Farrar, Straus and Giroux that races in the WISSOTA circuit in the Upper Midwest.