Scott Zesch is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, Alamo Heights, as well as the nonfiction book, The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier (St. Martin's Press), winner of the TCU Texas Book Award. A graduate of Texas A&M and Harvard Law School, he divides his time between New York City and Art, Texas (population 3).

     He is at work on a new book, The Chinatown Wars, about the 1871 Los Angeles race riots, to be published by Oxford University Press.

REVIEWS for The Captured

“The most complete picture yet of what it was like to be taken from the white world of farming, discipline, and hard work into the roaming, brutal-yet-carefree life of the Southern Plains Indians.”

—San Antonio Express News

“A carefully written, well-researched contribution to Western history—and to a promising new genre: the anthropology of the stolen.” —Kirkus