Steven T. Callan is the award-winning author of The Case of the Missing Game Warden, a 2022 "Best First Novel" award finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Callan's first two books, both nonfiction, earned excellent reviews. Badges, Bears, and Eagles was a 2013 "Book of the Year" award finalist (Foreword Reviews). The Game Warden's Son was named "Best Outdoor Book of 2016" by the Outdoor Writers Association of California. Callan received the 2014, 2015, and 2016 "Best Outdoor Magazine Column" awards from the Outdoor Writers Association of California.Steve grew up in the Northern California farm town of Orland, spending his high-school years playing baseball, basketball, hunting, and fishing. With an insatiable interest in wildlife, he never missed an opportunity to ride on patrol with his father, a California Fish and Game warden. Steve graduated from CSU, Chico, and attended graduate school at CSU, Sacramento. Hired by the California Department of Fish and Game in 1974, he began his career as a game warden near the Colorado River, promoted to patrol lieutenant in the Riverside/San Bernardino area, and spent the remainder of his thirty-year enforcement career in Shasta County. Steve and his wife, Kathy, live in the Redding area.