Theodore Wheeler is the author of one short story collection and three novels, including Kings of Broken Things (Little A, 2017) and the forthcoming The War Begins in Paris (Little, Brown, 2023). He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Nebraska Arts Council, and Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. He worked for fourteen years as a journalist who covered law and politics, and his fiction is often influenced by real life and historical events. Wheeler and his family operate Dundee Book Company, an independent neighborhood bookshop, and he is a resident assistant professor at Creighton University.